As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]
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Turkish Right celebrates Syrian Rebel Offensive, while Left Fears Partition and Turmoil
Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After four years of frozen conflict, Syrian rebels, mainly from the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and […]
The Russia – Iran – Assad ‘Axis of the Vulnerable’ is Cracking in Syria
By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) – The so-called “axis of the vulnerable” is breaking in Syria. Starting in 2016, Russia and Iran, […]
Progressives must Act to Protect the most Vulnerable: mere Resistance to Trump is not Enough
By Ira Chernus ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the […]
“It is like an Apocalypse:” Amnesty International finds Israel is deliberately undertaking Genocide against Palestinians of Gaza
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International has just put out a detailed report based on its own fieldwork and masses of other evidence finding […]
Israel is pushing Political Allies in Congress to outlaw Conversations about the Genocide in Gaza; it won’t Work
( The Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will […]
The spectacular Capture of Aleppo by Opposition Forces plunges Syria into an uncertain Future
By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – The forgotten Syrian civil war has again flared up with the spectacular capture of Aleppo by […]
Shiite Iraqi PM to Türkiye: Baghdad will not be a Mere Spectator as Sunni Radicals take Syria
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia’ al-Sudani called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday and read him the riot act […]
Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
( Code Pink ) – On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both […]
Bankrupting the Planet: The Trump Tempest
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the […]
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