Ma’an News Agency | – – TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed over 40 Palestinian homes and structures in the Tubas district of the occupied West Bank as ongoing Israeli policies in the Jordan Valley continue to drive Palestinians out of their homes. A Palestinian official from the governor’s office in Tubas, Mutaz […]
Archives for February 2016
Israel: Friedman of the NY Times surrenders to One-State Solution, sees ME Apocalypse
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Tom Friedman of the New York Times has completely given up on a two-state solution, forthrightly abandoning the polite fiction that there will ever be a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and ridiculing American presidential candidates for speaking as though it were still a possibility. In fact, […]
Turkey must not strand new Wave of Syrian Refugees, & nor should Europe
Human Rights Watch | – – (Istanbul) – Turkey should allow Syrians at its border fleeing the fighting in and around Aleppo to seek protection in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today. Forcing people to remain in a war zone, where they risk death and injury, is no solution to the challenge of protecting Syrians […]
The GOP’s Anti-Government Line created Trump: Movement conservatism and the rise of the demagogues
By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump has now won a primary, and looks positioned to win many more. The GOP establishment nightmare looks more plausible by the day – have you seen a poll anywhere in any state where Trump or Ted Cruz doesn’t lead? In so many ways, […]
The Choice: Fear & Militarization or Curing the Disease of Violence
By Mairead Maguire | (Inter Press Service) | – – BELFAST (IPS) – The World Health Organization has said that ‘Violence is a preventable disease’ and people are not born violent, rather we all live in cultures of violence. This can be changed through nonviolent peacemaking and the persuit of ‘just peace’ and nurturing of […]
Israeli Parliament Targets Human Rights NGOs
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved the first reading of the “NGO transparency bill,” denounced by critics as a move to delegitimize and weaken human rights organizations in Israel. The first reading of the bill, which passed 50 to 43, sparked uproar among some lawmakers, two […]
VICE Special Report: Fighting Isis (Ben Anderson Debrief)
Ben Anderson of VICE gives a chilling report on Da’esh: the events that led to their rise and the situation as of today.
Did Muslim-Americans lose the New Hampshire GOP Primary?
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “This is what the Republican presidential candidates said about Muslims in their most recent debate.” AJ+: “The GOP Has A Muslim Problem”
Did Bashar al-Assad win New Hampshire? Trump & Sanders Mideast Policies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders won big in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Caution is in order, since that state is demographically not very much like the rest of the United States, and both candidates are Northeasterners with advantages there. US journalism dreams of a presidential election […]
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