Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some observers are likening Trump’s abrupt departure from Syria and President Barack Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. The two […]
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An Expansionist State? Did Israel ever have any intention of honoring either the 1947 Partition Plan or 1967 borders?
By Thomas Suárez | – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex parts of the occupied West Bank if re-elected in last month’s General […]
Did Bush put Iraq on Road to Democracy? Not to Judge by the Violent Crackdown on Protesters
By Balsam Mustafa | – When Muhanad Habib, a 22-year-old Iraqi from the Sadr City district of Baghdad, posted on Facebook in late September, he […]
Not Just Ethnicity: Turkey v. Kurds and the Great Divide over Political Islam v. the Secular Left
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey’s incursion into Syria has roiled the Middle East and NATO countries, demonstrating one key polarizing divide on both sides […]
On Yom Kippur, remembering the Diversity Iraq’s Mosul has Lost with Nationalism and ISIL
By Stephennie Mulder | – On Yom Kippur each year, as Jews around the world pray for atonement, the biblical Book of Jonah is read […]
Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Trump is counting on his base to endorse his increasingly open law-breaking. It may not end well. Trump’s public […]
Iraq protests expose the crisis in the regime’s integrity
By Abdulwahhab Badrakhan | – A third wave of protests in Iraq, following those in 2015 and 2018, continues to shake the three pillars of […]
Is Trump’s Syria Policy about to Loose 12,000 ISIL Terrorists on the World?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tessa Fox at Al Jazeera writes that Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of U.S. special operations forces from northern Syria in expectation […]
High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century
(Tomdispatch.com ) – There is blood in the water and frenzied sharks are closing in for the kill. Or so they think. From the time […]
Trump decision to withdraw troops from Syria opens way for dangerous Middle East power play
By Tony Walker | – US President Donald Trump’s precipitate announcement he was withdrawing American forces from northeast Syria to enable Turkey to assert its […]
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