Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]
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Can Christianity Survive in Turkey, the Birthplace of the Holy Roman Empire?
By Ramazan Kılınç | – Vowing to better protect Christians, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told media at the White House recently that Turkey will […]
Lebanon’s October Revolution: Resistance and Popular Culture
By Amal Ghazal | – I am following Lebanon’s October Revolution from Vancouver. Between me and the revolution stand two continents, an ocean, a sea […]
Now that Trump deems Israeli Squatting Legal, will More Palestinians be Kicked off their Land?
By Anne Irfan | – When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US government will no longer view Israeli settlements in the […]
What does Fraud and Bribery trial of Israeli PM Netanyahu tell us about Trump Impeachment?
Revised By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Israel’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit on advice from the police, indicted caretaker Israeli prime minister […]
Israeli “Crime Minister” Netanyahu Indicted, Political System in Freefall
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s attorney general has indicted prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Ari Shapiro and Daniel Estrin report at NPR, on charges of […]
It Isn’t only Syrian Kurds who Feel abandoned by Trump: Ask the Iraqis
By Mieczysław P. Boduszyński | – In all the hand-wringing that critics and commentators have done since President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. […]
Trump’s War on our Language: Fudging, Waffling and Lying weave Alternative Universe
( Tomdispatch.com ) – These days, witnessing the administration’s never-ending cruelty at the border, the shenanigans of a White House caught red-handed in attempted bribery […]
Quid Pro Quo: 4 GOP Defenses of Trump that Sondland and others have Shot Down
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 1. No quid pro quo (“this for that”). The Republicans, and Trump himself, kept asserting that the president didn’t offer […]
Why are there so many Mass Protests in Today’s World but so Few real Revolutions?
By Peter McPhee | – We live in a world of violent challenges to the status quo, from Chile and Iraq to Hong Kong, Catalonia […]