By Kılıç Buğra Kanat It will again depend on the Maliki administration to turn this situation to its advantage. Changing track and following a more inclusive policy and an attempt to win hearts and minds of people in Iraq will be his best chance to stay in power. After its capture of Mosul and some […]
by Maung Zarni A poem in memory of the two Rohingya infants who became the well-publicized victims of Myanmar’s “Buddhist” genocide. We are a great nation of “Buddhist” Myanmar We send our waves of Metta for World Peace We boast about our Oxonian Nobel Lady who was once a (vastly mistaken) global icon of
by Joseph Allchin Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes, their leaders tortured and killed. Is this what democracy in Burma was supposed to look like? Two years ago, I stood in searing heat along a dusty rural road in Burma, lined for miles with local people waiting with hope and
By MARWAN BISHARA You’ve got to admire Tony Blair’s tenacity. Despite his terrible failures in Iraq and with the Palestinian Authority, the former British prime minister continues to pontificate about the Middle East’s ills and cures. Seven years after he was appointed as the special envoy for the so-called quartet of Middle East peacemakers (the
Alarming Convictions of Al Jazeera Journalists in Egypt The conviction of three journalists by an Egyptian court on Monday for doing their jobs is the latest effort by the country’s military-backed rulers to crush all dissent. The alarming verdict sends a chilling and intimidating message not just to other journalists working in the country but
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and DAVID E. SANGER Shiite militiamen on Monday in Baghdad, where Iraqi extremists ambushed and killed more than 20 fighters the day before. CreditAyman Oghanna for The New York Times WASHINGTON — A senior American diplomat met with his Iranian counterpart in Vienna on Monday to explore whether the United States and Iran
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By David Hearst Lop-sided natural resource deals Egypt signed with Israel under Mubarak have cost the country billions and left the people struggling with daily shortages. Now Sisi’s ascendancy to Egypt’s presidency clears the way for more. It took the US Central Intelligence Agency 60 years to admit its involvement in the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad
By Tom Engelhardt As Iraq was unraveling last week and the possible outlines of the first jihadist state in modern history were coming into view, I remembered this nugget from the summer of 2002. At the time, journalist Ron Suskind had a meeting with “a senior advisor” to president George W Bush (later identified
By Richard Falk Where differences seem irreconcilable, the common call is ‘to think outside the box’. An Israeli military checkpoint in the old city in Hebron, West Bank [Getty Images] For years, influential thought about Palestine has almost exclusively considered variations on the theme of a two-state solution. US Secretary of State
By Patrick Cockburn June 21, 2014 “ICH” – “The Independent“- Isolated and discredited by humiliating military defeat, the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is likely to go soon, battered as he is by only slightly veiled demands for his immediate departure from powerful figures who once supported him. Within hours of President Obama making it
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