Posted to an email list. I made some minor spelling corrections. This is going to be a slightly disjointed email, I’m sorry in advanced. It’s […]

The political opposition in Iran held commemorations in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Ahvaz and Rasht for the deaths of protesters at the hands of security forces […]

AFP says that fighting went on for a second day on Wednesday inside the Camp Ashraf compound of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (People’s Holy Warriors or […]

Iraqi security forces from the Ministry of the Interior raided Camp Ashraf, the stronghold of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) terrorist cult in eastern Iraq, on […]

My essay, “Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!: A Century of Frenzy over the North-West Frontier,” has just been posted at Tomdispatch.com. Excerpt: […]

William R. Polk writes in a guest editorial for IC: Probably like most of you, I am engaged in a daily attempt to make up […]

On Sunday, the Change List in the Kurdistan Regional Government elections made the startling claim that it had won in Sulaimaniya, a long time stronghold […]

Update: Taliban in Kunduz in Afghanistan’s north attempted to assassinate warlord Muhammad Qasim Fahim on Sunday, but failed. One of his bodyguards was wounded in […]

Aljazeera English reports on the Kurdistan elections: For the first time in recent memory, the two major Kurdish parties (which are in a sense clans […]