By John Hursh | (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday afternoon, gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum in Tunis, killing at least 20 people. Many more people sustained serious injuries. The casualties included foreign tourists and Tunisians, although most victims were foreigners. Tunisian leaders and citizens strongly condemned the attack. Foreign governments and human rights organizations offered […]
Archives for March 2015
Jerusalem a Tinderbox that could Explode: EU Report
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – A leaked EU report cautioned that Jerusalem has reached its highest point of “polarization and violence” since the Second Intifada in 2005, according to international news sources. Describing the upsurge of a “vicious cycle of violence … increasingly threatening the viability of the two-state solution,” the report blames increasing tensions on the […]
Iran’s Lakes becoming Deserts as Climate Change, Dams provoke Aridity
AFP | – “Nazar Sarani’s village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country’s worsening water crisis. Climate change is blamed, but so too is human error and mismanagement. A voiced AFPTV report.” AFP: “As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran’s new problem”
Palestinian Women: The Oppressed of the Oppressed
By Mel Frykberg | – GAZA CITY (IPS) – Israel’s siege of Gaza, aided and abetted by the Egyptians in the south, has aggravated the plight of Gazan women, and the Jewish state’s devastating military assault on the coastal territory over July and August 2014 exacerbated the situation. In a resolution approved by the U.N. […]
Yemen Bombing: It’s not ISIL and it’s not Sunni-Shiite Conflict
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The massive twin bombings at mosques in the capital that shook Yemen on Friday, killing over 100 and wounding many more, were immediately claimed by Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Since the mosques were largely attended by members of the Houthi movement in Zaidi, Shiite Islam and Daesh is ultra-Sunni, […]
Even if they can Defeat ISIL/ Daesh, Can Iraqi Politicians Get together? The Surprising Answer
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) – Former political enemies are forming new, non-sectarian alliances to prepare for an extremist-free future. Shiites are partnering with Sunnis and Kurds to support progressive decision-making. Can it work? There have been some quiet negotiations going on in Iraq’s Parliament for some time now. Members of the Ahrar […]
Unprecedented CO2 Crimes: Next time, Let’s Call it “Cyclone ExxonMobil”
By David Ray Griffin, author of “Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?” (Clarity Press, 2015). | – Cyclone Pam, which this past week caused unprecedented destruction in the South Sea island nation of Vanuatu, should be called Cyclone ExxonMobil. I took this idea from a comment by Bill McKibben about Hurricane Sandy (“hurricane” is […]
Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state
RT | – The US is “evaluating” its policy towards Israel in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election and campaign statements. This could involve passing a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements. President Obama called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to congratulate him on winning the March 17 election, and used the opportunity to […]
Will Palestine now take Israel’s Netanyahu to Int’l Criminal Court for War Crimes?
By Kate Shuttleworth and Joe Dyke | JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (IRIN) – Shortly before Israel’s elections on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that as long as he remained in power there would be no independent Palestinian state. “Whoever moves to establish a Palestinian state or intends to withdraw from territory is simply yielding territory for radical […]
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