The US, Israel and their regional allies have been on the record that the final target of their “regime change” campaign in the Middle East was to dismantle the Syria–Iran alliance

Since the beginning of the rise of ISIS, the danger of an increase in anti-Muslim racism has become an unfortunate reality in the Western world

What’s uppermost in our religious consciousness – religious dominance or basic human rights?

Stripping citizenship is forbidden by the International Declaration of Human Rights and other UN instruments and treaties

Turkey is fanning the flames of a bloody and mushrooming sectarian conflagration

From the very beginning of the revolt in south-eastern Ukraine the presidential administration in the Kremlin set out to establish its control

Foreign intervention will only increase the level of violence and the Sunni-Shia civil war will gather force, with no end in sight

Four Months into Iraq War 3.0, the Cracks Are Showing — on the Battlefield and at the Pentagon

Current developments in Kurdistan and gives a brief overview of the history of the Kurdish liberation movement and the PKK’s illegal status in Germany

Pre-school enrollment has gone from 43.4 to 70.7%, primary attendance from 85 to 92.2%, and secondary from 47.7 to 75.1%.

Some Post-Election Reflections

Alborz Gandanhari, David McCleary, Kumars Salehi and Tory Webster on a sea change in US labor’s willingness to be complicit in apartheid and ethnic cleansing

It would be hard to imagine a more sweeping way to invite and reinforce racist notions of criminality than by telling people that every unwanted intrusion in public is a potential crime

Here are a few quick thoughts on the November 4th election. (1) There is almost always a low turnout during a midterm election…

The meteoric rise of Spain’s new leftist force, Podemos, may yet spell the end of the two-party regime the country inherited from Franco’s dictatorship

Meanwhile, my friends continue to die—my Iraqi friends, my Afghan friends, my Syrian friends, my Libyan friends, my Pakistani friends, my Palestinian friends, my Somalian friends, my veteran friends…

Big Oil’s “Air War” Fails To Sink Richmond Progressives

How could the change affect foreign policy?

It is unclear when the war in the Middle East will end and how much longer this outflow of refugees will continue

By purging security forces of corrupt officials, the government is pledging to dismantle some of the most powerful mafias in the Caribbean region