Informed Comment - Part 798

Nonviolent Noncooperation: A Palestinian Response to the Kushner/Trump Plan

( Nonviolence International) – President Trump and his son-in-law’s “peace” plan would worsen the long term subjugation of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, East […]

Mubarak Awad

Development

The Coronavirus has sent Stocks Plummeting – Could a Recession be Next?

By Michael Walden | – Fears are growing that the new coronavirus will infect the U.S. economy. U.S stocks are headed for their worst week […]

The Conversation

Epidemics

On Top of Everything Else, Coronavirus hits the Middle East

(Al-Bab.com) – Iran announced on Friday that the number of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 388, with 34 deaths so far (among […]

Brian Whitaker

Featured

Clouds of War: Russia sends Warships as Turkey kills 45 Syrian Troops and blackmails Europe with Migration

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey and Russia engaged in a tense dance of negotiation and threat on Friday in the wake of the killing […]

Juan Cole

Elections

Iran goes from Bad to Worse: Hardliners win elections, thanks in part to Trump’s treaty withdrawal

(Progressive.org) – ‘TEHRAN—The parliamentary candidates had rented a large hall for a campaign rally, but only a few hundred supporters showed up. They came to […]

Reese Erlich

Israel/ Palestine

Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start . . .

(Middle East Monitor) – The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. […]

Asa Winstanley

Displaced and Refugees

Targeting Muslims, India is Abolishing Birthright Citizenship

By Rahul Sambaraju and Suryapratim Roy | – The fallout from two controversial changes to citizenship laws continues to rock India. At least 35 people […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad