The contested centenary of Britain’s ‘calamitous promise’
The British pledge to establish a ‘Jewish national home’ in Palestine is being celebrated and condemned as a divisive anniversary approaches. By Ian Black...
View ArticleWhat is Al-Shabaab, and what does it want?
(CNN)Al-Shabaab is a Somali group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in March 2008. It wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the...
View ArticleHow Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Comment Print In early April 2014, as the post-Cold War order roiled in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula—the first forced annexation...
View Article“Difference,” American-Style: Of High-Horse Riders and Low-Hanging Fruit
Annals of Parliamentary Cretinism: 4 This has been in the works since the get-go. HRC faces a tight race in what ought to be a walkover because she is a lousy candidate and a terrible campaigner, and...
View ArticleNew Atheism, Worse Than You Think
In the years since the so-called “New Atheism” burst onto the scene in the mid 2000s, the movement has not lacked for critics among nonbelievers and agnostics. Until recently, however, few of them...
View ArticleCombating Trump's Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of "1984"
The US may be on the verge of witnessing how democracy ends. We must fight the normalization of Trump and his actions. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) When democracies start to break down, they...
View ArticleLife after Guantanamo: A tale of two Afghan friends; one joined IS, other...
Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release -- one became an Islamic State jihadist, the other joined the US-led government...
View ArticleIs The Middle East In A War Without End Unleashed By ISIS?
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Has the Middle East—now beset by inter-nation, inter-Muslim and inter-ethnic conflict—been engulfed in a war...
View ArticleIslamic State: the West must embrace local state ownership of the region’s...
2 August 2017 - Peter Hain Has the Middle East - now beset by inter-nation, inter-Muslim and inter-ethnic conflict - been engulfed in a war without end? A war unleashed by the barbarism and terror of...
View ArticleWhy the Heroin Trade Helped Defeat the US in Afghanistan
America’s Opium War in Afghanistan. This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. In...
View ArticleHow a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
America’s Opium War in Afghanistan By Alfred W. McCoy February 23, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Tom Dispatch" - After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the...
View ArticleHow a Pink Flower Defeated the World's Sole Superpower
America's Opium War in Afghanistan Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How can this be...
View ArticleThe Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir
Souad Sharabani: I am ashamed to admit that even though I have been a journalist for a very long time, covered and travelled to many parts of the world including India, my knowledge of Kashmir, the...
View ArticleThe Bin Laden Death Mythology
Official history of raid camouflages US protection of governments behind 9/11 By Nafeez Ahmed July 04, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Medium" - The White House’s story of how US special forces...
View ArticleAmerican Nightmare: the Depravity of Neoliberalism
Deciphering the meaning of Neo-liberalism as a historical force and societal form requires the energies and know-how of a sagacious sleuth like Hercule Poirot. Wendy Brown, a philosophy professor at...
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