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Can a Loose Federal system save Syria and Iraq?
By Jerome Joffe | (Informed Comment) | – – In recent months, prospects for applying the principles of federation and constitutional protection for minorities as a basic political solution for the conflicts in Syria and Iraq have dramatically improved. On the foundation of state restructuring, coordination of military force to degrade ISIS and the...
PressTV-Clashes near parliament in Kiev injure 100
Loading … At least 100 police officers have been injured in clashes in front of the Ukrainian parliament in the capital city of Kiev as radical nationalists gathered there to protest against constitutional amendments that grant more autonomy to the pro-Russia eastern region of the country. On Monday, hundreds of supporters of...
As tragedies shock Europe, a bigger refugee crisis looms in the Middle East
Children play amid garbage at an informal Syrian refugee settlement near Zahle, Lebanon. (Sam Tarling/For The Washington Post) AL-MINYA, Lebanon — While the world’s attention is fixed on the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees swarming into Europe, a potentially far more profound crisis is unfolding in the countries of the Middle East that...
China Falters, and the Global Economy Is Forced to Adapt
Photo Chinese officials in Shandong Province preparing to take samples of iron ore imported from India. Credit Chen Weifeng/European Pressphoto Agency HONG KONG — The commodities giant BHP Billiton spent heavily for years, mining iron ore across Australia, digging for copper in Chile, and pumping oil off the coast of Trinidad. The company could...
Bonfire of the Assets, With Trump Lighting Matches
Normally, when your main geopolitical rivals are shooting themselves in both feet, the military manual says step back and enjoy the show. But I take little comfort in watching China burning money and Russia burning food, because in today’s interdependent world we’re all affected. I also find no joy in it because we Americans, too,...
Assad’s sanctions-busting ties to Israeli business tycoon
Exclusive: Assad’s uncle is using HSBC and front companies to avoid EU/US sanctions and funnel cash through international tax havens, funding death and destruction back in Syria, al-Araby al-Jadeed reveals. At the start of the Syrian uprising in 2011, the family of Bashar al-Assad’s maternal uncle, Mohammad Makhlouf, were known to...
Nuclear Deal or Not? The ratification must be solely entrusted to the U.S. and Iran–and NOT to Israel and Saudi Arabia
Déjà vu all over again, some misguided Israelites and their agents in the U.S. coopted by Benjamin Netanyahu continue interfering in the very essence of the American government and the U.S. sovereignty through their leveraging and hedging in the election processes, boycotts and silencing of American oppositions and leading the U.S. to wars, all...
Iran Hawks Think We Can Impose Harsher Sanctions on Iran
Senator John McCain questions Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on the recently brokered Iran nuclear deal during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in July. (Department of Defense / Glenn Fawcett) Opponents of the Iran deal, which was worked out between Iran and the UN Security Council plus Germany, with EU support, keep reciting the mantra...
War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever
The world’s most worrisome military flashpoint is arguably not in the Strait of Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, Iran, Israel, Kashmir or Ukraine. In fact, it cannot be located on any map of Earth, even though it is very easy to find. To see it, just look up into a clear sky, to the no-man’s-land of Earth orbit, where a conflict is...
In Liberal Europe, Abortion Laws Come With Their Own Restrictions
Global While some U.S. policymakers are motivated by morality, other nations see babies as a common good. We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > A protester opposed to abortion demonstrates outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast,...
