Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]
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Pakistan: Violence against Christian Neighborhood rooted in Blasphemy Law, Union Contest
On Sunday, Pakistani police rounded up 70 suspects in the mass arson attacks on Saturday on the Christian neighborhood of Joseph Colony on Noor Road […]
Cairo Burning: The Great Soccer Riots of 2013 and the Revolution
Some two thousand angry youth in Port Said attempted to block ferries and sent speedboats into the canal zone, aiming at disrupting shipping in the […]
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Syria: Why don’t We Hear More, Do More?
Oxfam says that the Syrian refugee crisis is ‘spiraling out of control’; Amy Christian reports: The Real News Network interviews Omar Dahi on this humanitarian […]
Two Bombings Kill 18 As Hagel Arrives in Afghanistan
The Taliban appear to have strategized embarrassing new Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. As he arrived in Kabul on his first visit to Afghanistan, a […]
Overcoming Woman-Hatred in Afghanistan: 3 Stories
In honor of International Women’s Day, here is a short documentary on women in Afghanistan, focusing on three women who have achieved something in recent […]
Lebanese Soccer Team, Coach Assault Referees after Penalty Called (Video)
A Lebanese soccer/ football referee is quitting after having been assaulted for a call he made on the field at a match last weekend in […]
Obama & Brennan Brought GOP Filibuster on themselves by Extreme Secrecy on Drones
John O. Brennan was confirmed as head of the Central Intelligence Agency yesterday, after the confirmation was held up for 13 hours by a filibuster […]
Did the Man who Tried to buy our Presidential Election Get rich by Bribing Communist China? (Engelberg)
Stephen Engelberg writes at ProPublica Last week’s admission by Sheldon Adelson’s casino company that it had “likely” violated provisions of the federal law barring U.S. […]
Mission Accomplished: Iraq as America’s biggest Blunder (Van Buren)
Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com I was there. And “there” was nowhere. And nowhere was the place to be if you wanted to see […]
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