Tulu Gümüştekin The general elections will be held on June 7, the first weekend of the month. This is the second time that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will not be able to be a candidate in parliamentarian elections since 2002 because he was elected president in August 2014. …
Read More »U.S. Defense Biz Sees Cash from Mideast Chaos
Tim Mak The Middle East is on a knife’s edge, thanks to a lunatic ISIS and a rising Iran. For American arms-makers, that means only one thing: opportunity. War in Yemen. The continued threat of ISIS. Ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria. Increasing Iranian influence. As America’s Middle …
Read More »Kerry: US working with KSA to end Yemen crisis
The US is working with Saudi Arabia, UAE and the UN to start peace negotiations between Yemen’s government and the Houthis, said US Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry said the US was working “very hard” to help negotiate a solution to the crisis in Yemen through the …
Read More »Why is the US Trying to Replace the Assad Government With al-Qaeda in Syria?
By PAUL LARUDEE A month ago, the city of Idlib fell to opposition fighters, mainly al-Qaeda and its affiliates and allies. It was a major blow to the Syrian army. Last Saturday, the nearby town of Jisr al-Shughour also fell, mostly to the same groups. Fighting against the Syrian government …
Read More »Meet the Next Generation of Terrorists Who Support ISIS
By Marlow Stern The documentary Among the Believers provides an eye-opening behind the scenes portrait of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, which trains young children for jihad. Among the Believers, a chilling new documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens on a terribly cute 5-year-old …
Read More »Hillary and Liberals: Here’s the Deal
By Michael Tomasky You don’t have to say you love her, because the election isn’t even directly about her. It’s about finally undoing the Reagan revolution. In the last few days, I’ve heard from a couple of relatives who have, or know of friends who have, come down …
Read More »A Time for Middle East Realism
By CHRISTOPHER R. HILL The Middle East has not been easy on US presidents over the past seven decades. Historically, support for Israel and its right to exist within defensible borders has been tenuously balanced against the need to defend shipping lanes for oil and otherwise protecting world energy …
Read More »Why, and how, Britain might leave the European Union?
GREECE has long seemed a decent bet to crash out of the euro zone, and perhaps also the European Union. But during the current election campaign in Britain, Britain’s exit (or a “Brexit”) from the EU has also started to seem a real possibility. David Cameron, the prime …
Read More »Why Putin Is Winning The New Cold War? The US wants to bring Russia down but it can’t get past Vladimir Putin
By Rakesh Krishnan Simha There are 7.2 billion people on this planet but the United States fears only one man — Vladimir Putin. That’s because on virtually every front of the new Cold War, the Russian president is walloping the collective challenge of the West. Fear can make …
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