Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Blaming Victims, Trump attacks Syrian Kurds as “Communists,” “No Angels,” PKK as worse than ISIL
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dispatches from the Great Trump Clown Parade, which would be gut-busting hilarious if it did not involve real-world dark horrors, […]
Trump’s Endless Wars
(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a […]
Does Facebook impose curfews on Palestinians in the ‘blue world’?
By Hossam Shaker | – When the Arab youth revolted in 2011 to demand freedom and democracy in their countries, Facebook was the social media […]
Syria: why the Kurds had little option but to do a deal with Bashar al-Assad
By Cengiz Gunes | – When the Syrian military withdrew from the Kurdish populated regions of Syria in July 2012, they left the Kurds in […]
Russians, Syrian Army take over Manbij and its US Bases, Blocking Turkey
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) took control of the city of Manbij on Tuesday, with Russian gendarmes taking up patrols […]
Extorting Ukraine is Bad Enough: But Trump Has Done Much Worse
By Rebecca Gordon | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought […]
Jazz Great Yusef Lateef’s Journey to Islam
“I want my music to awaken something that’s already in your heart.” (Informed Comment) – Among the hundred-plus African-American jazz musicians who embraced Islam in […]
Does the Demi Lovato Affair prove that Brand Israel is now toxic?
By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – “Brand Israel” was launched. As I’ve written before, this public relations strategy was an utter failure. War crimes, […]
Kurdish Women Fighters helped Defeat ISIL, & now are a Target of Turkish Invasion
By Haidar Khezri | – Kurdish fighters under attack by Turkey have described President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria as […]
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