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

The latest US bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, aka ISIL) as a feminist rescue mission may be the worst of Obama’s justifications

There are four historical reasons to understand how the anger and frustration now all over the Muslim world leads to attraction to the Islamic State (IS) in poor sectors

This bill of corporate rights threatens to blow the sovereignty of parliament unless it can be stopped

To this we may add the world’s greatest terrorist campaign: Obama’s global project of assassination of “terrorists”

“We’re on a steep slope toward an increasingly polarized society and moral decline”

‘After I wrote the first edition of The ABCs of Political Economy in 2002 came the “rush” of vindication: I warned about the dangerous…