2018

Exposing Canary Mission’s campaign against Palestinian human Rights: A Resource for College and University Leaders

N.B. Yes, I have been smeared by this odious hate group, but there’s not much they can do to me. But they are trying to ruin the careers of our young Americans who care about human rights. Please alert your university administrators to their scam. – J. C. Committee for Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies […]

Featured

Friedman: Does Iran’s Quds Force really Control four Countries and is Israel-Iran War Near?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Thomas Friedman’s column this week made several allegations about the danger of an explosive situation in Syria, about which he is certainly correct. He pointed out that the US-UK-France missile strikes on Syria in reprisal for the alleged use of chlorine gas at Douma by the […]

Israel/ Palestine

‘Great March’ for Palestinian Refugees’ Right of Return Endures Bloody Crackdown

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By Joey Ayoub and Marwa Fatafta | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – After months of preparing, tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters launched the “Great Return March” along Gaza’s eastern borders with Israel on 30 March to commemorate Land Day. Photo via Ma`n News Agency The mobilization ended in death when the Israeli army opened […]

astronomy and outer space

Diamond rain in Sudan evidence of ‘lost planet,’ Arab Scientists Find

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Middle East Monitor | – – Diamonds from outer space formed inside a long-lost planet Diamonds found inside a meteorite which exploded over Sudan could prove the existence of a “lost planet”, scientists have announced. Following years of research, a new study has found that the tiny diamonds contain compounds that are only produced under […]

Puerto Rico

Is this America? Entire Island of Puerto Rico plunged into Darkness Again!

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The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – Posted by Matti K on April 18, 2018 The power grid has collapsed in Puerto Rico and the entire island lost power on the morning of April 18, 2018. The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately known, but island officials and media confirmed electricity […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel to French Mayor: You can’t visit Occupied Palestine if you stand against Occupation

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TeleSur | – – Leclerc Patrice, a member of the French Communist Party, has been denied entry into Israel more than once for his support of the BDS movement. France’s Foreign Ministry requested Tuesday that Israeli authorities allow entry for elected officials into Israel and occupied Palestinian territories, a day after the mayor of Gennevilliers, […]

Education

Why do Red State Teachers need to Strike for a living Wage? It is about Class

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By Steve Fraser | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Teachers in red-state America are hard at work teaching us all a lesson. The American mythos has always rested on a belief that this country was born out of a kind of immaculate conception, that the New World came into being and has forever after been […]

Syria

With Turkish Troops in Syria, is Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism a Diplomatic or Military Project?

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By Nicolai Due-Gundersen | (The Conversation) | – – On our third trip to Istanbul, my wife and I visited the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, once the administrative centre of the Ottoman Empire. As we toured the 285-room palace my wife was struck with not just how well preserved it was, but that it was […]

Donald Trump

Syria After Trump’s Withdrawal: Top Reasons an “Arab Force” will Fail

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump’s determination to withdraw US troops from eastern Syria by October, so that GOP candidates for representative and senator can run on having defeated ISIL and having then brought the troops home, has created a policy dilemma for the Department of Defense and for the […]

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