By Megan Hanna | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – On October 29, Israeli military forces issued a disturbing message to residents of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, telling them that unless they stopped throwing stones “we will gas you until you die.” Israeli military forces raided the camp and fired tear gas and flash […]
Syria: On eve of Vienna Summit, Has Russia changed the facts on the Ground?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Writing in al-Hayat [Life] this week, columnist Walid Choucair outlined the successes he sees Russia to have had in its Syria campaign, and the goals for which it is reaching. Choucair is the Lebanese affairs bureau chief of this pan-Arab, Saudi-owned London daily, which has a […]
Why Russia Fears ISIL: Panic over Domestic Terror Plots & Wave of Arrests
By Joanna Paraszczuk | ( RFE/ RL ) | – – Russia appears to be cracking down on Muslims and labor migrants in response to what it says are domestic terror threats from the Islamic State (IS) extremist group with reports of mass arrests of “IS-linked suspects” last week. The apparent crackdown comes amid heightened […]
More of Iraq’s Kurdish Women Training to Fight Extremists
Shalaw Mohammed | Erbil | ( Niqash.org ) | – – Increasing numbers of Iraqi Kurdish women are training to become soldiers; they want to join their men in the fight against the extremist Islamic State group. Silaf Muslih doesn’t believe there should be any difference between males and females on the battlefields of Iraq. […]
2016 Campaign and Forever War: Electorate gone to Disney World
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You may not know it, but you’re living in a futuristic science fiction novel. And that’s a fact. If you were to read about our American world in such a novel, you would be amazed by its strangeness. Since you exist right smack in the […]
Bernie Sanders Hugs Muslim Student And Vows To Fight Racism
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Bernie Sanders promises to fight the “ugly stain” of anti-Islamic sentiment across the U.S.” AJ+: “Bernie Sanders Hugs Muslim Student And Vows To Fight Racism”
Iran’s Attendance at Syria talks in Vienna marks its Emergence as Regional Power
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Friday, Iran and Saudi Arabia will both attend an international summit on Syria and speak diplomatically about its future for the first time. It won’t be easy, since Iran has 1500 troops on the ground supporting the government of Bashar al-Assad, while Saudi Arabia is […]
Amnesty: Israeli forces have ‘ripped up the rulebook’
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Amnesty International on Tuesday demanded that Israel stop unlawful killings in occupied Palestinian territory, stating that Israeli forces appeared to have “ripped up the rulebook.” “There is mounting evidence that, as tensions have risen dramatically, in some cases Israeli forces appear to have ripped up the […]
War is Beautiful: How Newspapers’ War Photography Conceals the Hideous Reality
By David Shields | (Informed Comment) | – – The following is an excerpt from War Is Beautiful by David Shields: For decades, upon opening the New York Times every morning and contemplating the front page, I was entranced by the war photographs. My attraction to the photographs evolved into a mixture of rapture, bafflement, […]
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