By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As Shakir Jawdat, Chief of the Iraqi Federal Police, announced the complete liberation of the last, northern neighborhoods of Fallujah from Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi came to the city on Sunday to plant the Iraqi flag right downtown. al-Abadi, the commander in chief […]
Archives for June 2016
US Elites Abandoned their Workers: Trump is their Revenge; & You ain’t seen Nothin’ Yet
By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And […]
How can Americans prevent an Israeli-Iranian War? Dump the Squatter Settlers
By Thomas Buonomo | (Informed Comment) | – – The conflict in Syria is likely to grow more dangerous for all parties in the near future as Assad refuses to step down and Iran continues to expand its military presence in Syria and Lebanon in pursuit of its decades-long goal of annihilating the state of […]
NRA: The Public be Damned (Political cartoon)
By Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol’s World ) Courtesy Jamiol’s World
The Great Battle for Aleppo
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Jordan’s Arabic daily al-Dustour [Constitution] is reporting on what it calls ‘the Great Battle for Aleppo.’ Such a battle isn’t, ideally, supposed to be taking place, by the terms of the cessation of hostilities reached in late November. The rebels in East Aleppo (pop. 300,000) and […]
Dissing Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israeli Occupation
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates. Despite its claims to want to unify voters ahead of November’s election, the Democratic party appears to be pushing for an agenda that critics say ignores basic progressive […]
The Greater Middle East Reacts to British Exit from EU
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The oil-rich Gulf Cooperation countries may see additional buying opportunities in the British market after Brexit. BBC Monitoring reports: “Political analyst for regional issues and Gulf Cooperation Council Hamad Ahmad Abdul Aziz al-Amer says in Saudi pro-government Ukaz that the Britain’s leaving the EU “might lead […]
The Middle East Dimension of Brexit
Middle East Eye | (Video News Report) | Brexit will affect Syrian and other Refugees at Calais, intelligence sharing on ISIL, and Palestine-Israel diplomacy among other pressing issues. ” Middle East Eye: “90 Seconds: Impact of ‘Brexit’ on the Middle East and UK foreign policy”
Why did UK leaving European Union hit your Retirement Account so Hard?
By Andre Spicer | (The Conversation) | – – Despite reassurances that we shouldn’t listen to the experts, the financial markets have gone and behaved almost exactly as the experts predicted. Following the news that the UK will be leaving the EU, the pound has dropped to a level not seen since 1985. The FSTE […]
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