Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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Turkish Military Operation in Syria puts Large Numbers of Civilians at Risk
Key Concerns Include Unlawful Attacks, Treatment of Displaced People, Arbitrary Arrests
South Africans advise Palestinians on how Apartheid can be Overcome
Ramzy Baroud | @RamzyBaroud | – The way to truly defeat Apartheid: A conversation with Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally “Perhaps the time has come […]
Turkish attack on Syria endangers a remarkable democratic experiment by the Kurds
By James L. Gelvin | – Turkey’s attack on Kurdish-run territory in northern Syria will likely snuff out a radical experiment in self-government that is […]
How the Roberts Court’s ‘Citizens United’ allowed Parnas and Fruman to Buy influence in America
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I pointed out last week, the most powerful intervention in US politics allowing foreign influence in US elections, which […]
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 […]
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