The Anti-Bouazizi: Did Russia try to ‘flash mob’ a Trump Victory?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Russian internet trolls linked to an oligarch…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Russian internet trolls linked to an oligarch…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump more or less threatened to wipe…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iraqi Supreme Court has ordered that…
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Trump flip-flops on Afghanistan, opts for Years-long Quagmire
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The 16-years-long Afghanistan War has bedeviled Washington decision-makers since the US invasion of fall, 2001, which came in response to the attacks of…Can Iraq save Tal Afar from ISIL without Destroying the City?
By Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) | - - [N.B. The offensive against ISIL (Daesh) in Tal Afar began on Sunday. - JC] Intensive air raids, secret political talks and military forces gathering…ISIL in Afghanistan Resilient despite Kabul Offensive
By Frud Bezhan. | ( RFE/RL) | - - A relentless air-and-ground campaign against the [so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS) affiliate in Afghanistan does not appear to have radically diminished that militant…Racist Israeli Youth attack Israeli Soldiers, shouting “You are Arabs!”
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) --Two Israeli soldiers were attacked on Friday night in a public park in the town of Pardes Hanna-Karkur, south of Haifa in northern Israel,…Trump Pledged to Carpet Bomb ISIL, but Little Lebanon is Taking them On
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Lebanese Army has mobilized to clean out an ISIL enclave in a mountainous region on the border with Syria, Jurud al-Qaa and…‘Not in Our Name!’: Barcelona Muslims Denounce Attacks
TeleSur | - - The crowd chanted slogans such as "Islam is peace!" and “They are not Muslims, they are terrorists!” In the wake of two attacks in Catalonia this week, claimed…Are ISIL recruits more street gang members than zealots?
By James L. Gelvin | (The Conversation) | - - The recent terrorist attacks in Spain and Finland once again compel us to ask: Who joins the [so-called] Islamic State [group], and…Trump fires Bannon: Who are the Winners & Losers Globally?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Steve Bannon by his own admission promoted the Breitbart webzine as a mouthpiece of white supremacism, in an attempt to create a new,…Arab World: Is it Still a War if Civilians are mostly the Targets?
By Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim | (Inter Press Service) | - - GENEVA, Switzerland (IPS) - The war in Syria has now entered its 6th year and is becoming the world’s…Israel to Impose Fines for Commemoration of Nakba (Palestinian Defeat)
IMEMC | - - Israeli occupation authorities are prepared to impose massive fines on Palestinians who commemorate the Israeli occupation of Palestine, a report revealed on Tuesday. An Arab member of the…Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A vehicular terror attack in Barcelona that left over a dozen people dead and 100 injured has been claimed by ISIL. Another terrorist…US Military in Syria to Stay, YPG Kurds Say
TeleSur | - - The United States has been funding and supporting the group for months, due to “strategic interests” in the region, a spokesperson revealed. U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria —…No Longer “Indispensable?” The World is moving on from Trump’s America
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and…German Politicians think Trump is dangerously close to Neo-Nazis, and they Should know
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The nation of Germany gazed with helpless horror at Trump's disastrous Tuesday press conference, in which he tried to make a false equivalency…Remembering the White Rose anti-Nazi Activists
Global Nonviolent Action Database | Swarthmore University By Aly Passanante | (Edited by Max Rennebohm) | Global Nonviolent Action Database | - - Amidst the omnipresence of violence during World War II,…Think there’s too much Trouble in the World? Now Global Heating is Kicking In
Gulrez Shah Azhar | (Project Syndicate) | - - SANTA MONICA – With India experiencing its worst drought in 140 years, Indian farmers have taken to the streets. At a protest in…Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases
TeleSur | - - Each day there are more than 5,000 new cases of the waterborne disease. More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the…Iran’s Parliament defies new Trump/GOP Sanctions, Increases Missile Funds
TeleSur | - - The bill would allocate over US$260 million each to Iran's ballistic missile program and the Quds Force. Iran's parliament has approved the first step of a bill to…Iraq after ISIL needs Security, Anti-Corruption & Jobs, not Identity Politics
By Andrea Teti, Pamela Abbott, and Munqith Dagher | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | - - Ignoring priorities that have popular support in Iraq risks undermining post-ISIS attempts to build a stable country,…What to do with Confederate statues?
James Glaser | (The Conversation) | - - Could Russia teach us something about how to deal with difficult aspects of our national history? Many places in the South – from New…