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Arbitrary: Egyptian Military Court Sentences 3-Year-Old to Life
Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – A life sentence apparently handed down by mistake to a 3-year-old boy on February 16, 2016, exemplifies the arbitrariness of Egyptian courts that are…
Turkey’s New Normal?: Bombing in Ankara kills Dozens
By Winston Obertan | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | - - Ankara. Wikimedia image. A bomb blast, believed to have originated from a car bomb, has killed at least 28 people and injured…
A Bizarre Argument From a Conservative Israeli Lawmaker Against Palestinian Statehood
AJ+ | (Video report) | - - Anat Berko, a conservative member of the Israeli Knesset, said there could be no Palestine because there's no letter “P” in Arabic. She made the…
Failed Syria Talks raise specter of new Refugee wave, Misery in Mideast, Europe
By Alpaslan Ozerdem | (The Conversation | - - The Syrian civil war and the refugee crisis it has caused is the greatest humanitarian disaster facing the world right now. But while…
Gazans Are Struggling to Stay Warm This Winter (AJ+)
Al Jazeera+ gives viewers a look into the daily lives of people living in the Gaza Strip. Israeli policy has led to interesting adaptations by the Gazans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1P6-1NcCF0
Israeli PM Netanyahu Still trying to derail Iran Nuclear Deal
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - BBC Monitoring reports that over the weekend, even as the great Powers were certifying that Iran was in compliance with the UNSC deal…
Why Americans Should Support Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions of Israeli Squatter Settlements
By Thomas Buonomo | (Informed Comment) | - - It is clear that the Israeli government under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of entering into serious negotiations…
What It Takes To Defeat ISIL’s Ideology
By Charles Recknagel | RFE/RL Daniel Koehler is among a handful of people in the West who work with Islamist militants returning from Syria in an effort to reintegrate them into normal…
Year in Review: Paris Attacks must not become Pretext for a new ‘Global War on Terror’
Petra Gümplová | (Open Democracy) | - - It will only exacerbate the causes of terrorist attacks, diminish society’s capacity to cope rationally with risks, and permanently damage freedom, democracy, and international…
Top 5 Things for which We should be grateful to Arabic Writing
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When a teacher in rural Augusta county, Virginia, decided to expose her students to the Arabic script (a piece of calligraphy writing out…
Palestine: Friday clashes erupt across occupied West Bank as Israeli Occupiers use Lethal Force
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Weekly Friday demonstrations took place across the occupied West Bank on Friday, locals said. Locals told Ma’an that clashes broke out between Palestinians…
In Iraq’s Ur, Archeologists Explore History’s Potential to Unite A Divided Land
By Ahmad Thamer Jihad | (Niqash.org) | - - The best way to combat the damage done to Iraq's antiquities during the current security crisis is to put more effort into exploring…
Ghoul’s Glossary: A Donald Trump Translation Dictionary
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Constitution, US: 1. An time-consuming optional document that can be abrogated for lack of time. 2. syn. politically correct (s.v.) criminal: 1. syn.…
Did Obama Really “Surrender the Middle East to Putin?”
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - A perusal of the “writing on the hall” commentary of the Right Wing in the last two months--since a small Russian force…
41% of Trump Supporters want to bomb Aladdin and Jasmine
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Public Policy Polling asked US voters if they favored bombing "Agraba." Some 30% of Republicans said "Yes!" Obviously, this is a a little…
Can Historic climate agreement protect the world’s most vulnerable people?
The Tree | - - 195 countries reached across traditional divides today to unite behind the greatest moral challenge of our time and seal the deal on a historic climate accord. The…
Should an al-Qaeda Ally have a seat at the Syrian Table? Al-Assad rejects talks w/ any armed Group
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Riyadh conference of the Syrian opposition this week included political groups but also nine armed bands. One of the nine, the Free…
Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and other bigots on the far right are nothing new in American history. Rather, they remind us of the…