The old demons are resurging
Archives for November 2018
Muslim Troops Helped Entente Win WW I, Shaped European Security
(Informed Comment) – As the world is marking the end of the First World War first centenary and remembering its millions of military and civilian victims, in this article I’m going to focus only on one victim of the Great War and that’s the truth. There are millions of forgotten Arab and Muslim soldiers who […]
Putin’s biggest Fanboy in Congress, Rohrabacher, Defeated in bright Red District
Washington (AFP) – Representative Dana Rohrabacher, whose quixotic foreign policy campaigns made him persona non grata in Pakistan and Afghanistan and who became a rare US defender of Vladimir Putin, has lost his seat after 30 years. The 71-year-old Republican, whose exploits have included grabbing a gun to join Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet mujahedin, was projected Saturday […]
Netanyahu Defends allowing Qatar to Send millions in Aid to Gaza
Netanyahu said the Israeli security establishment supported the move
Haunted by the Hole where our Memories of the Afghanistan War Should Be
There are moments when it feels like I never left
The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia
The Qur’an has subsisted in the literature of Christian and post-Christian Europe and the Americas in a shifting borderland between self and other.
The Lessons of World War I– Don’t Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump
Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing. The outbreak of that war in 1914 took many contemporaries by surprise. That it would last four years, when leaders promised a quick victory, was a another shock. That advanced machine guns and artillery would make mincemeat […]
Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Timetable for US Troop Withdrawal
Iraqi MP Ahmad Al-Assadi, senior leader of the Iraqi Construction Alliance, revealed on Friday parliamentarian moves to pressure the Iraqi government to evict US forces from the country. Al-Assadi said that the previous Iraqi parliament had started the calls, but now the new parliament was calling for a clear timetable for the US withdrawal from […]
Did Trump avoid Cemetery, dishonor Troops, b/c Rain would Muss his Hair (more)?
by Francis CURTA and Clare BYRNE Paris (AFP) – US President Donald Trump came under fire on Saturday after cancelling a visit to an American World War I military cemetery in France because of rainy weather. Trump, who is in France for commemorations marking the centenary of the end of the war, and his wife […]