Calls for stripping Natalie Portman of Israel Citizenship for criticizing Shooting Palestinian Protesters
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - "Annihilation" star Natalie Portman replied to the…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - "Annihilation" star Natalie Portman replied to the…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Natalie Portman has declined the award of…
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The Tragedy of American Great Power Moves on the Middle East: Trump Can, so he Will
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - As assumed, the US, the UK and France launched their coordinated airstrikes on Syria in the early hours of Saturday, April 14 to…Iraq on Syria Strikes: We’ve seen this Movie and it doesn’t End Well
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iraq's foreign ministry came out strongly against the US, British and French missile strikes on Syria. In a statement issued Saturday, the ministry…How the CIA’s secret torture program sparked a citizen-led public reckoning in North Carolina
By Alexandra Moore | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, is reported to have overseen a U.S. site in Thailand where torture of a…2 Dead, 30 wounded: Israeli troops again Fire on Peaceful Palestinian Protesters at Gaza Border
TeleSur | - - “I have no fear of dying because there is no life in Gaza,” one Palestinian told AFP. As Friday protests resumed near the border fence between Gaza and…Reality Show violence in the Age of Trump: Striking Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump along with allies British prime minister Theresa May and French president Emannuel Macron struck Syria on Friday evening. It was not…Russia, Iran and Syria respond to Trump’s Threats
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The UK-based Arabic language daily, al-Arabi al-Jadid (a secular, left-leaning newspaper helmed by Azmi Bishara from Qatar) reports on the responses of Syria…Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?
By James Sweeney | (The Conversation) | - - Just days after an alleged chemical attack killed and injured scores of civilians in Douma, Syria, the US, UK and France agreed in…Israel must hold killers of Reporter Yaser Murtaja in its own Military to account: CPJ
Committee to Protect Journalists | - - Beirut--The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned comments by Israel's defense minister over the weekend that appear to justify the killing of Palestinian journalist Yaser…Trump, World Leaders outraged by Syria’s Douma but ignore Children of Gaza & Yemen
By Amelia Smith @amyinthedesert | (Middle East Monitor) | - - In the aftermath of the chemical weapons assault that suffocated to death over 80 men, women and children in the town…Iraq’s al-Sadr offers to mediate between Riyadh, Tehran
Middle East Monitor | - - Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric and opposition leader Muqtada al-Sadr has declared his willingness to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran with a view to mitigating tensions…‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian
TeleSur | - - While the world condemns Israel's use of lethal force, Israeli politicians and policy makers defend soldiers' cheering of shooting unarmed Palestinians. A video showing Israeli occupation soldiers shoot…Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus
By Karen Pinto | (The Conversation) | - - Dozens of people, including children, were killed this past weekend by an alleged chemical weapons attack in the eastern Ghouta city of Douma.…Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times reports that FBI agents produced a warrant at the offices in the Rockefeller Center of Trump's…If the world doesn’t stop Chemical Massacres at Syria, who is Next?
By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | - - Seven years into its catastrophic conflict, Syria has witnessed yet another major chemical strike. This time the target was the rebel-held city of…Why are only tinpot War Criminals Punished? What about the Architects of the Iraq War?
By Peter Singer | (Project Syndicate) | - - It is unlikely that former US President George W. Bush or any member of his administration will ever stand trial for initiating a…Peace in Islam: Qur’an 73:10 on Patience as Tolerance
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Chapter 73 of the Qur'an, "The Robed" (Al-Muzammil), contains what is probably the earliest Islamic injunction to turn the other cheek. 8. Remember…Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting “Animal Assad”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Sunday, Trump responded to the use by the Syrian regime of a chlorine-filled barrel bomb in the rebel enclave of Douma, a…Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?
By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | - - American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else’s war in Yemen, and the blood is on our hands. Since March 2015, the United States…Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma
Middle East Monitor | - - Russia’s military said an operation would begin on Sunday to bring fighters of the Jaish al-Islam rebel group out of their besieged enclave of Douma, Interfax…Syrian Regime kills dozens in Chem attack on Douma Holdout Enclave: Why?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Saudi-backed fundamentalist militia "Army of Islam" in the Douma district of East Ghouta near Damascus alleged Sunday that the al-Assad regime had…