By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Le Monde is reporting that a number of French newspapers and television channels have decided to cease printing the pictures, and sometimes even the names, of those who commit terrorist acts. Le Monde itself is adopting the same policy. France and Belgium have seen a number […]
Archives for July 2016
New Normal: A victim is displaced by Climate Change Disaster every Second
Climate Victims – Every Second, One Person Is Displaced by Disaster By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, Jul 27 2016 (IPS) – Climate change and related extreme weather events have devastated the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of most vulnerable people worldwide– by far exceeding the total of […]
B’Tselem: Israel demolished more Palestinian homes in past 6 months than in all of 2015
By Ma’an News Agency | – – A Palestinian family stands amid the remains of their home after it was demolished by Israeli forces in Masafer Jenbah in an undated photo. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have demolished more Palestinian homes in the West Bank in the first six months of 2016 […]
Can Turkey’s Economy come back from Coup and Massive Purge?
By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | – – The failed July 15 coup in Turkey has prompted a tsunami of responses by the government that is likely to have a lasting impact on all aspects of politics and society, including the economy. The initial arrest of military personnel who were involved or suspected of […]
Top 7 firsts in Women in US Politics
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As I pointed out, it is all very nice that Hillary Clinton is the first American woman to be nominated as the standard-bearer for her party’s presidential bid, but 11 Muslim women have already served. Women comprise 51% of the US population but they are only […]
Arab World’s biggest Problem not Terrorism or Fundamentalism but Water!
By Brahma Chellaney | (Project Syndicate) | – – BERLIN – Nowhere is freshwater scarcer than in the Arab world. The region is home to most of the world’s poorest states or territories in terms of water resources, including Bahrain, Djibouti, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. This shortage […]
US does 1/2 of all World’s Arms Sales, then Surprised by Global Violence
By William D. Hartung | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. It’s good for one or two stories a year in the mainstream media, usually when the annual statistics on […]
Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
By Fatma Müge Göçek | (The Conversation) | – – After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge thousands of academics and deans from office. In a crackdown that rapidly spread across civil and military services, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
The most Left Wing Supreme Court in a Generation? Sec. Clinton’s most important Progressive Prospect
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Progressives who had backed Bernie Sanders are understandably upset about the prospect of a Clinton presidency. Some put their hopes in the Democratic Party platform, where Bernie supporters won on issues like a $15 minimum wage. But party platforms don’t mean much in the end. It […]
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