A Cluster of Change: In the Arab World Events are Ripening, Potentially Changing the Region Radically

A Cluster of Change: In the Arab World Events are Ripening, Potentially Changing the Region Radically

When speaking of the Middle East, Domestic and international MSM pay close attention to the American administration’s relation strategies with the countries of the region as well as on what pitfalls it encounters. Nevertheless there are enough problems even without the USA. Saudi Arabia is poised in front of monarchical change and is faced with…

Deporting Palestinians?

Deporting Palestinians?

The scheme keeps resurfacing – deporting families of Palestinian activists for justice to Syria or Gaza. In November 2014, months after Israeli Protective Edge aggression on Gaza, Knesset legislation was drafted to revoke the citizenship or residency of Palestinian freedom fighters falsely called “terrorists,” along with their family members, demolishing their homes straightaway, and deporting…

Germany: Right Wing Rising?

Germany: Right Wing Rising?

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is entering parliament for the first time ever, though its electoral rise seems to be more of a reaction to Chancellor Merkel than anything else. The AfD came in third place by scoring 12.5% of the vote, while Merkel’s Christian Democrats won the election but with only 34.7%….

As Kirkuk Boils, Kurdistan About to Hurl Iraq into Turmoil Over ‘Independence’ Referendum

As Kirkuk Boils, Kurdistan About to Hurl Iraq into Turmoil Over ‘Independence’ Referendum

Kurdistan’s President Massoud Barzani’s rushed plan for the region will only wreak havoc. A fresh Kirkuk conflict which pits Kurdish forces against Iraqi militias may result in a new Kurdistan which could exclude the president from office just as quickly ‘Ethnic cleansing’ is the term a CIA officer coined when writing a report about the…