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What Can Americans Learn from New York’s Shrewd Governor, Andrew Cuomo?

By Barbara Nimri Aziz, October 28, 2020             Day 240 of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US; anxious New Yorkers are again invited to hear about changing conditions in…

Who Will Come to America’s Aid?

JULY 21, 2020, By Barbara Nimri Aziz USA needs help. Let’s face it: our democratic institutions aren’t working well; our president is behaving like a depraved, spiteful monarch;…

“Soft Power”: Americans in Its Grip at Home Must Face the Mischief It Wields

JULY 13, 2020, Global Research I suspect most Americans would approve of what they understand to be this nation’s global cultural reach as expressed through its ‘soft power’….

Eight minutes, Forty-six Seconds

JUNE 5, 2020, By Barbara Nimri Aziz. Eight minutes, forty-six seconds is a long time: a long time when you are meditating; a long time while waiting for…

A Risky Referendum for Kurdistan Underway in Iraq

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017, Globalresearch.ca. The referendum is opposed by neighboring powers, but most significantly by the central government in Baghdad. It is a far more serious move that…

Women as Pawns in the Political War Game

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017, Globalresearch.ca. The referendum is opposed by neighboring powers, but most significantly by the central government in Baghdad. It is a far more serious move that…

Who, What and Where are Iraq’s Turkmen?

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014, Counterpunch.org. Know your Yazidi. An anthropological sketch will assure support for US and Peshmarga military advances across Iraq, and sequester a competing other minority—Iraq’s Turkmen.

Demolishing More Than Just Palestinian Homes

APRIL, 1996, Christian Science Monitor It’s quite a spectacle, a Palestinian home being blown apart. Furniture, dishes, and clothes, hastily removed, are deposited helter-skelter in the path or…

‘The Neighbors Are Talking:’ Despite past differences, Syria and Iraq are teaming up again

AUGUST 1997,  Toward Freedom. What nobody in the US—no journalist or academic or politician wanted to talk about, has actually happened. Syria and Iraq have opened their borders…

Letter to My Friend in Damascus

MARCH 13, 2017, Counterpunch.org. I am afraid to ask you you’re feelings about the recently announced American invasion into your country. In our talks these past months, we’ve…