By Dr Jan Best de Vries: Now that the Turkish genocide of Kurdish civilians in Bakur (Turkish Kurdistan) has been extended to the villages within Rojava, both the USA and Europe with their alleged “human rights” policies keep looking away from it. A month ago the first embassy of Rojava was opened in Moscow and…
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Kurdistan’s Independence: From 4 to 1-State Solution – The Case for a United States of Kurdistan, USK
By Dr. M. Koohzad: PART 1 of 2 Introduction: The Kurdish political leadership in Erbil, the capital city of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG, in Northern Iraq, was about to carry out a referendum to declare independence when Daesh, meaning Donkeys in Arabic, Jihadist terrorists – the so-called ISIS, showed up at their doorsteps….
The Road to Jerusalem: IS Follows Saladin’s Steps
By Osamah Golpy: A popular Arabic song started to emerge in the second Palestinian intifada in 2000. It glorifies two Palestinians, a father and a son: the boy crying and the father waving, all in the eyes of the whole world, and then a burst of gunfire and dust, after which the boy is seen…
Iran: 35 years of success against democracy, human rights and peace in the Middle East and world
By Rebwar Rashed: President Carter spent New Year’s Eve in 1977 with the Shah and toasted Iran as “an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world”. Less than two years later came the so-called Iranian Revolution. Iran was not as stable as the Carter administration thought. On 4th November,…
What was yesterday’s prize, became today’s burden
By Evin Cheikosman: In a region fraught with ethno-sectarian battles and ancestral claims to various estates, the only beacon of stability is the Kurds. Whether it be the Kurds in Syria or Iraq, they have been solid in their fight against jihadists and calculating in forming new alliances. The Peshmerge, the Kurdish army in Iraq, came…
Israel claims seizing Iran’s shipment of rockets to Gaza, Iran calls this claim a lie
By Ava Homa: TORONTO, Canada – Israel and Iran continue to accuse each other of lying, each government calling the other a terrorist. Israel recently announced that they have seized an Iranian shipment of rockets sailing in the Red Sea off Sudan. The ship allegedly contained Syrian-made rockets and was intended for Palestinian militants in…
Pending calamity: Sectarian war between Shiites and Sunnis
By Rauf Naqishbendi: A tumultuous cloud hovering over the Islamic world is ominously unprecedented. Sectarian contention between Shiite and Sunni Muslims is on its way to consuming the entire Middle East with calamitous bloodshed and conflagrations. Clashing groups who advocate to this mishap are claiming their righteousness on the light of divine principles, while in realty…
‘Israel definitely backs the Kurds’: Jacques Neriah
Interviewed by Mohammed Hussein*: Dr. Jacques Neriah, a special analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, was formerly Foreign Policy Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Deputy Head for Assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence. He has written some articles about the Kurdish issue, and his recent one was…
Iran crisis: High oil prices can plague the global economy
By Rauf Naqishbendi: Due to the global economic slowdown, the demand for oil has been dwindling, resulting in an over-supply of oil. The supply-and-demand economic fundamental is seemingly imbalanced as the oil supply exceeds demand, and yet oil prices are on the rise. Conspicuously, this shows how geo-political events can override economic principles: in this…
Egypt’s new foreign policy will ‘waste resources trying to destroy Israel’ – Barry Rubin
By Koshan Ali Khidhir: The Arab Spring is a controversial issue, and most controversial is the impact of this change on relations between Egypt and Israel. In this interview we discuss some crucial issues with Professor Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center. Professor Rubin is a featured columnist at PJM, Editor,…
