Why There Is No Kurdish Nation
The Conversation
But the Kurds have never stopped resisting.
But the Kurds have never stopped resisting.
But the Kurds have never stopped resisting.
The New Middle East That’s Coming
Foreign Policy in Focus
The Middle East that is emerging from the current crisis may be very different than the one that existed before those cruise missiles and drones tipped over the chessboard
Not Just Ethnicity: Turkey v. Kurds and the Great Divide over Political Islam v. the Secular Left; Portraits of the Kurdish Struggle
Informed Comment
Turkey’s incursion into Syria has roiled the Middle East and NATO countries, demonstrating one key polarizing divide on both sides of the Mediterranean. As far as I can tell, that divide is between supporters of political Islam and its opponents.
Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice
Independent Media Institute
The claim that Iran is the main “sponsor of terrorism” is one that has become a cliché from Washington, D.C., to Riyadh. It has become so common that no evidence is needed to prove it.
US Sanctions Are Designed to Kill
Jacobin
US sanctions are killing ordinary Iranians by the thousands. Through its control over the world banking system, America’s sanctioning power flouts international human rights law and poses a threat to the world.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Was Invited to Meet Trump in the Oval Office
The New Yorker
Just weeks before the Trump Administration placed sanctions on the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, he was invited to meet with the President at the White House.
Global Left Midweek - July 31, 2019
Portside
Labour and Brexit, Puerto Rico en la lucha, Hong Kong's ongoing fight against extradition, Fighting repression in Colombia, Opposing communal and caste violence in India, Ágnes Heller remembered, 98 years of the SACP, Plea for Iranian unionists
The U.S.-Iran Standoff Can Only End When the U.S. Accepts Iran’s Right to Have a Nuclear Energy Program
Independent Media Institute
The U.S. has had a sanctions regime in place against Iran for decades, almost since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The U.S., France, and Germany later reneged on their nuclear energy contracts with Iran keeping billions of dollars of Iranian money.
Tidbits - July 25, 2019 - Reader Comments: GOP Destroying Democracy; Puerto Rico Rises and WINS; Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson and Colin Kaepernick; Iran; Europe's Right; Citizens United; What to Do When ICE Shows Up; Angela Davis and Black Lawyers; more
Portside
Reader Comments: GOP Destroying Democracy; Puerto Rico Rises and WINS; Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson and Colin Kaepernick; Iran; Europe's Right; Citizens United; What to Do When ICE Shows Up; Angela Davis and Black Lawyers; and more ...
books
Supporting Dictators is NOT Anti-Imperialism
ROAR
Fed -up with the imperial adventures of their own western capitalist governments, some radicals wrongly side with foreign dictators in the name of anti-imperialism. The book under review aims to move beyond a disabling “the West and the rest” binary.
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