Posted on Informed Consent on April 6, 2018. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem launched a campaign entitled “Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot,” on Thursday urging…
Ali Abunimah. Posted on ZCommunications April 1, 2018. From Electronic Intifada March 31. The Israeli army posted a statement on Twitter on Saturday apparently accepting full responsibility for…
Posted on The Region on March 29, 2018. A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political…
Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the women of Enghelab Street, who took off her compulsory hejab as protest on 23rd February 2018, following the weeks of protest across in…
Michael Crowley and Bryan Bender. Posted on Politico on March 23, 2018. For the Donald Trump who preaches an “America First” foreign policy with little patience for international…
Ellen Frances. Posted on Huffington Post on March 17, 2018. BEIRUT, March 17 (Reuters) – Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns on Saturday to escape battles…
Esen Uslu. Posted on Weekly Worker, number 1193, March 8, 2018. Despite the popularity of Turkish actions in Syria, Cyprus and the Aegean, the ruling AKP is forced…
Esen Uslu. Posted on Weekly Worker Issue 1191 February 22, 2018. ‘Operation Olive Branch’ has given rise to increased repression and an intense outburst of chauvinism, writes Esen…
Marienna Pope-Wideman Posted on Red Pdepper on February 20, 2018. International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that seek to raise awareness of Israel’s…
Moujan Mirdamadi. Posted on The Conversation February 9, 2018. Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public – have sprung…
Rod Nordland. Posted on New York Times, January 28, 2018. QAMISHLI, Syria — A female Kurdish fighter carried out what appeared to be a suicide bombing attack on…
Owen Tudor. Posted by the Trade Union Congress of UK on January 2, 2108. Over the New Year, a wave of protests has erupted in Iran, as people…
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on Znet, January 5, 2018. The Israeli government is planning a series of measures aimed at fully denying Palestinians their legal rights in Jerusalem and…
Frieda Afary. Posted on Alliance of Middle East Socialist on December 31, 2017. In comparison to the mass protests that arose in 2009 after the fraudulent presidential election,…
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on Counterpunch December 4, 2017. The final elimination of Isis in Iraq and Syria is close, but welcome though the defeat of these monstrous movements may be, it has…
John Laforge. Posted on Counterpunch on December 1, 2017. Call it a nuclear clash of titans — but not the crude shouting-match between Donald Trump and North Korea’s…
Zep Kalb. Published on MERIP on November 2, 2017. At ten o’clock in the morning, Thursday October 5, 2017, about 500 teachers gathered in front of the Budget…
David Krieger Posted on Counterpunch on November 23, 2017 The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has been working to end the nuclear weapons threat to humanity and all life…
Marjorie Cohn. Published with permission from Truthout, November 4, 2017. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October…
Lisa Gleeson. Posted on Green Left October 14, 2107 A member of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) for the ruling Likud party, Anat Berko has presented Prime Minister Benjamin…
Patrick Cockburn. Published on London Review of Books October 2017, volume 39 number 20 pp15-17. Shortly before the siege of Raqqa began in June, Islamic State officials arrested…
Published on Al-Monitor on October 1, 2017 A gallery opening in northern Tehran, and a typical scene: silk scarves barely clinging to the backs of women’s heads, young…
Bryant Harris Posted on al-Monitor on September 15, 2017. A little-noticed provision to arm Iraqi Christians in the House version of a must-pass defense bill is inadvertently fueling unrest…
The medical journal Lancet (volume 390, number 10100, Sep 16, 2017, p 1083-1464) has published a series of articles on global health 2016 that shows the changing pattern…
Eva Bartlett. Posted on MPN News on August 23, 2017. Since the liberation of Aleppo, and the restoring of peace to Madaya and al-Waer, most Western media have…
Jake Johnson, Published by Common Dreams on August 14, 21 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached…
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on London Review of Books vol 39 no 16, August 17, 2017 . On 22 May, Ahmed Mohsen, an unemployed taxi driver, left his house…
Esen Uslu, Weekly Worker. The shambles that followed the April 16 referendum to amend the constitution confirmed the widely held expectations of the left: president Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
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