By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US embassy in Kabul has denied a visa to 6 Afghan high school students from Herat to accompany their invention in robotics to the United States for a demonstration. The girls made the 500 mile journey from the western city of Herat to the capital […]
Archives for July 2017
UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera is attack on Freedom of Expression
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, is “extremely concerned by the demand that Qatar close down the Al Jazeera network, as well as other affiliated media outlets.” The statement was released by UNCHR spokesman Rupert Colville. Colville added: “Whether or […]
The Violent “American Century”
By John Feffer | (FPIF) | Originally published in Korea Quarterly | – – The last near-century of American dominance was extraordinarily violent. Is it coming to an end? John Dower is one the most preeminent historians of World War II’s Pacific theater and the aftermath of the conflict in Asia. His book War Without […]
Syria: as anti-ISIL Fight enters End Game, Civilian Casualties Spike
By Roshni Majumdar | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As US-backed Syrian rebels plow ahead in the fight to take back Raqqa from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, the stake of civilian lives, who number as many as 100,000 in the city, has raised […]
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