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#UMW #History Department star #JasonSellers summarizes the history of #environmental protection on the #Rappahannock River: americanrivers.org/2018/06/a-lega…
#MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders statement condemns #POTUS #Trump Administration policies which criminalize #AsylumSeekers and harms #children. Don't let the obfuscation confuse -- this is wrong, full stop. doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/new…
@JonathanWhittall @offyourrecord article on "The #Politics of #Health in #Counterterrorism Operations," exploring policy implications of targeted #hospitals in #conflict zones. Relevant for #NotATarget & #MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders: merip.org/mer/mer286/pol…
Proud to have assisted our latest issue of #MiddleEastReport #MERIP, devoted to "Suffering & Limits of Relief." Contributors include @IlanaFeldman @JonathanWhittall @ParastouHassouri @AureliePonthieu, @SASmythe @SophiaHoffman @OmaralJaffal & yours truly: merip.org/mer/mer286
#LRB Blog looks at the #NewYorkTimes capture of ISIS documents from #Iraq, and the issues involved in archival movement: lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/06/1…
Today's #USA is little more than an updated and dystopian version of #ChittyChittyBangBang's Vulgaria, complete with a Child Catcher #ICE, His Excellency the "Teddy Bear" Baron Bomburst as #President, and Truly Scrumptious on the side. However, our film isn't over yet...
#EdvardKhil shows us once again why the #USSR #Russia as our biggest enemy, were enjoying their own thing, back in their own day: youtube.com/watch?v=n6Zxkn…
#ACLU website tells tale of citizen who prevents #CBP and #ICE from a dragnet on a #Greyhound bus: aclu.org/blog/immigrant…
Funny, #Facebook didn't pick it up on the first try... twitter.com/NabilAlTikriti…
@AdamEntous #NewYorker analyzes in depth #POTUS #Trump's #MiddleEast policies on #Israel, #Palestine, and the #Gulf, with the implications to come of this shift in US policy. Much to learn from this expose: https://t.co/ClOmXBw5p2
— Nabil Al-Tikriti (@NabilAlTikriti) June 13, 2018
Here's the 4 minute #video that the #WhiteHouse staff made for the #Trump #KimJongUn #Summit. youtube.com/watch?v=aYsaC2…
#MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders statement on new #US #DHS regulations on #CentralAmerican #AsylumSeekers, as equal to a "death sentence": doctorswithoutborders.org/article/new-as…
#Aquarius #SosMediterranee stuck with 629 rescued guests between #Malta and #Italy #Sicily ports, now closed. Next stop? #MonteCarlo? #Venice? theguardian.com/world/2018/jun…
#Jacobin Magazine #thedig #podcast interviews #NancyMacLean on her book "#Democracy in Chains," in the course of which she addresses the intellectual roots of #Virginia political #libertarianism: blubrry.com/jacobin/345462…
#HossamAbouzahr #LivingArabicProject #AtlanticCouncil describes why #MSA Modern Standard #Arabic is declining - a nasty tale of failed #education, #war, elite disinterest, moribound #publishing industry. Much of this has been true for decades, but not all: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Christopher Torchia, SF Gate, 2/24/2012: “Turkey’s Jewish narrative: tolerance and dark side”
Turkey’s Jewish narrative: tolerance and dark side. This article discusses the SS Struma sinking that we mentioned in class this week. Continue reading
Jonathan Lis, Ha’aretz, 2/23/2012: “U.S. refuses to grant visa to Israeli MK due to his membership in ‘terror group’”
U.S. refuses to grant visa to Israeli MK due to his membership in ‘terror group’ — for the first time in recent memory, an Israeli parliamentarian was denied entry into the United States due to membership in a banned organization, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Israel Shamir, Counterpunch, 2/22/2012: “What Really Happened in the “Yom Kippur” War?”
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Jonathan Cook, MERIP, “The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed,” 2/23/2012
The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed “Little more than a decade ago, in a brief interlude of heady optimism about the prospects of regional peace, the Israeli Supreme Court issued two landmark rulings that, it was widely assumed, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Jonathan Cook, MERIP, “The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed”
The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed
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Primary Source Resource
This website is a German repository of Middle East and North African primary source documents and secondary literature journals. The journals are mostly in German, but many of the primary sources are in English — including one that I found … Continue reading → Continue reading
Adam Shatz on Palestinian Politics Today
Adam Shatz, London Review of Books, 7/14/11: Is Palestine Next?
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Glenn Greenwald on Khader Adnan Hunger Strike Case
Khader Adnan and now-normalized Western justice
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Muhtesem Yuzyil [The Magnificient Century], English Subtitles, 1st Episode
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Conquest 1453 Official Trailer, English Subtitles
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