“Q: Right. I remember I was at Oprah’s house when she threw that first big fundraiser for Obama in 2007. And me, Obama and Chris Rock were huddled in a corner. And Chris Rock told us his famous story about the fight between heavyweight champ Larry [Read story...]

Karim Sadjadpour‏Verified account @ksadjadpourMoreKarim Sadjadpour Retweeted Javad ZarifTextbook example of a dictatorship using an external threat to try and legitimize its repressive apparatus. Trump has been a gift to themKarim Sadjadpour adde [Read story...]

‘Scaramucci is clearly an anti-Semite. Those who engage in the game of number of Holocaust victims are anti-Semites in my book. But American Zionists have a long record of indulgence toward anti-Semites if they are supporters of Israel, or if they at [Read story...]

If you read Western media you really get the impression that ISIS was defeated solely by US bombing and by the efforts of Syrian Democratic Forces militia. Those two parties were probably the least effective and least important in the regional fight [Read story...]

What a theatre. The US ISIS envoy visited Raqqa today accompanied with a Saudi minister to basically lay the claim that it was the US (and Saudi Arabia?) who really kicked out the ISIS caliphate. Those are the least effective elements of the internat [Read story...]

Where there were no pictures of the buses which the US arranged for ISIS fighters in Raqqa? [Read story...]

There has been ferocious fighting against ISIS in Dayr Az-Zur by Hizbullah and the Syrian regime forces and other allies and all Western media purposefully ignore this chapter in the history of fighting against ISIS because this does not fit into the [Read story...]

“Just as in Germany, there are clear indications of ties between Austria’s neo-Nazi far right and Israel’s right wing.” [Read story...]

“Over 30 countries have civilian nuclear programs; only a handful—including, of course, the US and Israel—have nuclear weapons programs. One is used to power cities, one is used to level them.” (thanks Amir) [Read story...]

Hizbullah expelled ISIS fighters from the Lebanese border and allowed them to evacuate with their families in buses. The US and its militias in Raqqa reached a similar deal with once difference: US forces would not allow photographers to take picture [Read story...]

Liz Sly‏Verified account @LizSly 16h16 hours agoMoreSyrian Kurds just retook Raqqa, aided by the US. But Kirkuk raises the question: will the US be sticking around? [Read story...]

‘Next Time, We Won’t Spare Lebanon’: Christian Media Hears Doomsday Warning From Senior Israeli Minister: ‘Its infrastructure, international airport and government facilities – it’s all game,’ Naftali Bennett tells first-of-its-kind Christian Med [Read story...]

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب – (c) The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب – Read entire story here.

Members of the regime-appointed powerless Shura Council calls for public shaming of anyone who criticize the regime. Kid you not. [Read story...]

“ “That fact that the term is being preserved only to describe ‘racially profiled’ violence reveals how deeply embedded racism and Islamophobia has become in our language and disturbingly, even in our legal system,” notes University of Toro [Read story...]

This I will tell you about Oriana Fallaci, who is still beloved in the US media. This is actually a tribute to her in the New York Times. She was not a journalist: she was a liar and a fabricator. She is worse than even Barbara Walters. I know this a [Read story...]

US media coverage of the battle against ISIS has been typically ill-informed and propagandistic. It has basically hailed the insignificant Syrian Democratic Forces militia as the hero in the fight against ISIS. SDF basically came late to the game and [Read story...]

The speaker of the Kuwaiti parliament (and the Kuwaiti parliament along with the Tunisian and Lebanese parliaments, is one of the few semi-real parliaments in the Arab world) because a hero yesterday for the way he handled the Israeli delegation in t [Read story...]

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How ignorant and intellectually lazy. All that she knows about Marxism is what the writer in Bloomberg tells her (and Laleh tells me that the writer is an Obama administration appointee on regulation). Make no mistake about it: the rise of the nutty [Read story...]

“In 2014, he wrote a provision incorporating Shiite volunteer fighters into the Iraqi armed forces, the so-called Iraqi Hezbollah, a reference to the Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Lebanon.” 1) they conflate Iraqi Hizbullah with the Hashd forces. 2 [Read story...]

So the Chinese government wants to fight “erroneous news”. US media will now cry: repression and censorship. But how is that different from this Western government war on “fake news”. it is the same thing with different names. [Read story...]

Now we know that the UN secretary-general is a mere tool of the US appointed Jeffrey Feltman. But the statement by the secretary-general about Hizbullah’s arms was funny: he said that is is an aberration to democracy (or words to that effect as I rea [Read story...]

But when Russian and Syrian regime bombing cause devastation, Western correspondents are up in arms. Why not be outraged about all? (this is Raqqa by the way). [Read story...]