Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The amazingly brave Cecilia Vega at CBS’ 60 Minutes did a groundbreaking segment on Sunday in which she interviewed US […]
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Beware of self-destructive Turkish propaganda
Yesterday, the Hürriyet Daily News reported about a recent warning by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan to all ambassadors of Turkey who were gathered in Ankara […]
Gül keeps pressing for a way out
Turkish President Abdullah Gül keeps pressing for a way out of the political crisis in the country despite the opposition’s refusal to keep cooperating on […]
Turkish state fund seizes assets of CHP Istanbul candidate Mustafa Sarıgül
The decision was taken after the current mayor of Istanbul’s Şişli district failed to repay loans worth $3.5 mln taken out in 1998, daily Hürriyet […]
UNESCO cancels event on Jewish ties to Land of Israel
Days before opening of Paris exhibit, UN cultural body bows to pressure from Arab states, who said it would harm peace talks
The Iraqi Heroine who Took on al-Qaeda in Northern Iraq
(By Ahmad al-Sayegh) Locals in the northern province of Ninawa are worried that extremists fleeing conflict in Anbar are going to end up back in […]
America Black Ops Wars in 134 Countries
(By Nick Turse) They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America. They snatch […]
NSA Collects Hundreds of Millions SMS Text Messages every Day
(By Mike Masnick) NSA Collecting Hundreds Of Millions Of Text Messages Daily, Looking At ‘Untargeted’ Messages & Data (via Techdirt) The latest in the ongoing […]
Kerry urges opposition to attend Geneva on eve of vote
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday put in a last-ditch plea to Syria’s opposition-in-exile to attend next week’s peace talks in Switzerland.
Five Reasons Benghazi Wasn’t Hillary Clinton’s Fault
(By Juan Cole) Republicans like Marco Rubio are making hay of a Senate report on the Benghazi attack on a US consulate that left 4 […]