Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Abu Dhabi-based Erem News reports that the Prime Minister of Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli, […]
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Iran’s Religious Leaders Keep Foreign Minister Zarif on to pursue European Diplomacy
Zarif has battled hardline resistance in parliament to new legislation tackling money laundering and terrorism financing
Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement
“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . ”
The Trojan Horse of US “Aid” to Venezuela
The arc of U.S. militarism across the 20th century and into the 21st is neither moral nor does it bend toward justice.
In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty
Beirut (AFP) – “The crackdown on civil society actors and political opponents increased significantly in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia,” the rights watchdog said in […]
The Survival of the Richest: The Real Wall
Money keeps flowing upward through banks and speculation, while the economic lives of those not at the top have largely remained stagnant
New Archeological Evidence for the Kaaba, Sanctuary of Peace, in Early Islam
“This inscription was written in the year when construction work was done on the sacred shrine in the year 78 [697-8].”
A Victim of Trump? Iran’s Centrist Foreign Minister Mysteriously Forced Out
Was Zarif forced out by regime hard liners angry about his role in the 2015 Nuclear Deal?
Why Proposal to Sell Saudis Nuclear Technology without Safeguards is Terrifying
Within days of President Trump’s inauguration, senior U.S. officials were promoting an initiative to transfer nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia
Israeli Bulldozers uproot 300 Palestinian-Owned Trees near Jenin
B’Tselem: “Under the guise of a “temporary military occupation,” Israel has been “using the land as its own: robbing land”