Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]
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Changing US-Iran Relations: Kerry: Iran has a Role in Defeating ISIL Militants
by Juan Cole Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran has a role to play in defeating ISIL. Addressing a meeting of […]
The Saddest Story In Mosul: Love In The Time Of The Caliphate
By Nawzat Shamdeen | Berlin | via Niqash.org All Mosul women must now wear either black or white niqab. A young Mosul man tells NIQASH […]
How does this End? 35 Military Interventions since 1980 and Terrorism Grows
Brave New Films: “Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions […]
Terrorism craves an audience and we are playing into Islamic State’s hands by watching
By Akil N Awan, Royal Holloway The well-known US security expert, Brian Jenkins, famously declared in 1974, that “terrorism is theatre”. And over the last […]
Running out of Time to overrule the 1% on urgent Climate Action
By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch.com There have undoubtedly been stable periods in human history, but you and your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents never lived through […]
Education, Health, and Global Warming: Top 5 Reasons 45% of Scots Wanted to Leave the Right Wing UK
by Juan Cole The US media coverage of the Scottish referendum is oddly lacking in any reference to actual politics. As usual, the corporate media […]
Will Independence Harm Scotland’s Green Advantage?
(Bloomberg) –- Renewable energy is found in abundance in Scotland; nearly half of the country’s electricity comes from green sources. But will an independent Scotland […]
Coalition Of One: Iran Leads Own Fight Against Islamic State
By Charles Recknagel, RFE/RL The United States is putting together the first international coalition to try to roll back the Islamic State (IS) militants in […]
A Way out of the Gaza Trap
By Jean-Pierre Filiu, author of Gaza: A History One person has been enjoying every minute of this summer’s fifty-day war on Gaza. He was known […]
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