Tag: Middle East

If a reconciliation cannot be achieved between Iraq’s Sunni and Shia populations, it’s almost a certainty that the country will continue to be afflicted by Daesh or some successor group.

How can your way of participating in a movement confront rather than reinforce the patterns of privilege and oppression that already exist between these identity groups?

Reality or reality TV?

Although the conflicts in Libya, Iraq and Syria have usually been described as civil wars, these theaters have been invaded by large numbers of foreigners, inevitably followed by the air-forces of Western and other countries.

The Saudi Regime is playing Donald Trump with potentially disastrous consequences.

The loss of childhood and the cruel removal of any sense of hope or of a secure future have been seeping into global discourse about children for many years now.

Those who called the President’s stop in Riyadh a success may have been premature in their assessment.

Can Trump get his magpie mind around the complexities of Syria?

If the Trump administration truly wants to find a way out of the wars in the Middle East and make the United States safer from terrorists, it would do well to stop arming, aiding and abetting the ruthless Saudi regime.

What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.