Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]
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Schwarzkopf (RIP) and How the United States got Bogged Down in the Middle East
Gen. Norman H. Schwarzkopf is dead at 78. He died of pneumonia. Schwarzkopf was among the military leaders who repositioned the United States as a […]
FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Peaceful Occupy Wall Street as Terrorist threat
Second Amendment fundamentalists push for open carrying of firearms in public, and armed gun nuts even attended one of President Obama’s rallies in Arizona. That […]
The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) – (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)
Skateistan is a skateboard NGO in Kabul, which maintains a facility for skateboarding and gets as many as 300 youth to attend as spectators at […]
Syria’s Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000
Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Jasim al-Shalal, head of Syria’s military police, defected late Tuesday to Turkey, joining the revolutionaries against the regime. He announced his […]
Egypt: Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution
Dozens of progressive Egyptian women cut their hair in Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest the passage of Egypt’s new, fundamentalist constitution. The protesters chanted, […]
New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy
The Egyptian electoral commission on Tuesday signed off on the constitutional referendum, declaring that the country’s guiding legal framework had received a little over 63 […]
Christmas 2012: The Flowering of Middle Eastern Christianity and the Challenges it Faces
There are more Middle Eastern Christians than ever before, and they are poised between emergence as a new political force in a democratizing region and […]
Cairo Symphony Orchestra: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
Cairo Celebration Choir & Cairo Symphony Orchestra: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
Christmas in Bethlehem has special Significance for Palestinians
Euronews reports on Christmas in Bethlehem and the Palestinians: Some 15,000 pilgrims are in the city and, despite fears raised by the Gaza fighting, hotels […]
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