Middle East

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Following up on a campaign pledge from US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway reiterated on Monday that the move would be a “very big priority” for the Trump administration. “That is very big priority […]

Featured

Syria’s Aleppo Falling: The Government Russia actually Turned

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By Monday morning Syrian time, the large and important district of Shaikh Saeed in southeastern Aleppo had completely fallen to the Syrian Arab Army and its allies among the Shiite militias of Lebanon and Iraq. (Orange in this map areas regime has taken in past 3 […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian East Jerusalem Vanishing: Israeli Strategy Exposed in New Video

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By IMEMC | – – A new video released by the Negotiations Affairs Department, titled “East Jerusalem: Israel’s Colonial Project Unraveled,” declares that Israel’s policy in the city, since the 1967 occupation, is three fold: creating a Jewish majority, reducing Palestinian presence and isolating East Jerusalem and dividing it from its West Bank parts. According […]

Israel/ Palestine

Jerusalem 1896: Incredible Footage of Jews, Muslims, Christians living under the Ottomans

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Nahda Productions | (Historic Video) | – – “Incredible footage of Palestine and Jerusalem from the year 1896. Muslims, Jews and Christians lived next to each other and peacefully under the auspices of the Ottoman (Uthmani) Caliphate/Empire.” Nahda Productions: “Incredible footage from Jerusalem in 1896 | Jews, Muslims, Christians living under the Ottomans”

Authoritarianism

Life under the Junta: Deadly Explosion at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral Kills 25

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TeleSur | – – The Coptic cathedral explosion has reportedly killed 25 people and injured dozens more. A crowd gathered outside Cairo city’s biggest Coptic Christian cathedral Sunday morning chanting, “Tell the sheikh, tell the priest, Egyptians’ blood is not cheap!” after a deadly bombing killed at least 25 people in the worst attack on […]

Displaced and Refugees

Why is the US at War in Yemen and will Trump Escalate?

Rebecca Gordon

San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com) | – The long national nightmare that was the 2016 presidential election is finally over. Now, we’re facing a worse terror: the reality of a Trump presidency. Donald Trump has already promised to nominate a segregationist attorney general, a national security adviser who is a raging Islamophobe, a secretary of education […]

Energy

Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A couple of years ago an oil tanker showed up off the Texas coast with cargo from Iraqi Kurdistan. The problem? Iraqi Kurdistan is a province of Iraq, and the central government in Baghdad claims that petroleum discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan is under the control of […]

Iran

In Iran, Women’s militia Leader Demands Persecution Of Gender-Rights Activism

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By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Minou Aslani, head of the Women’s Basij organization in Iran, has condemned efforts to increase the number of women in parliament and opposed campaigns to curb domestic violence as perceived assaults on Iranian society and traditional family values. Minou Aslani, head of the Women’s Basij organization […]

Israel/ Palestine

Amnesty International calls on Israel to drop ‘baseless’ charges against activists

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Human rights organization Amnesty International released a statement Friday demanding Israel to drop the “baseless” charges against two Palestinian “human rights defenders” Farid al-Atrash and Issa Amro, who both currently face charges in an Israeli military court relating to their activism. Both locals of the southern […]