World View: Orlando Terror Attack May Be Result of Islamic State, al-Qaeda Troubles
Contents: Al-Qaeda leader swears allegiance to Taliban’s new leader; ISIS losing ground may have led to Orlando terror attack
Contents: Al-Qaeda leader swears allegiance to Taliban’s new leader; ISIS losing ground may have led to Orlando terror attack
Contents: Bangladesh government arrests 3,192 people to stop terrorist killings; History of Bangladesh’s ‘BNP-Jamaat clique’ goes back to massive 1971 ethnic war
Generational Dynamics, Afghanistan, Ash Carter, Robert Gates, John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR, Dawlat Waziri
Contents: Turkey bans fertilizer sales after two terror bombings; Israel deploys hundreds of troops to West Bank, cancels entry permits; Israel cracks down on Palestinian workshops producing guns
Contents: Israel’s Netanyahu responds cautiously to Tel Aviv terror attack; West Bank Palestinians reject call to end security cooperation with Israel; Turkey endures two days of terror bombing attacks; Terror attacks in Turkey complicate EU-Turkey migrant deal
Contents: Kenya protests take an increasingly dangerous turn; Malawi’s albinos ‘face extinction’ as they’re killed and sold for body parts; Colorado health insurance in crisis as Obamacare continues to collapse
Contents: Increasing violence in Kenya revives fears of tribal war; Generational history of tribal violence in Kenya; Kenya facing fierce criticism over closing the world’s largest refugee camp
Contents: Violent terror attack on Kazakhstan blamed on Islamic militants; Islamist militants in Bangladesh kill police officer’s wife in revenge
Contents: How Iran’s Khomeini fooled Jimmy Carter before the Great Islamic Revolution; Khamenei accuses ‘evil’ Britain of fabricating the BBC report
Contents: Drinking beer is back in Venezuela’s Socialist Paradise; Hezbollah building tunnels into Israel to prepare for next war; ‘Tiananmen Mothers’ commemorate China’s Tiananmen Square massacre
Contents: Turkey recalls German ambassador after vote recognizes Armenian genocide; Germany’s genocide vote seems timed to coincide with EU-Turkey refugee deal
Contents: New Taiwan poll shows overwhelming support for independence from China; China close to imposing an air defense ID zone (ADIZ) in South China Sea
Contents: Death of Afghan Taliban leader exposes Iran-Taliban links; 50,000 civilians in danger as Iraq tries to liberate Fallujah from ISIS
Contents: Thousands of refugees leave Libya for Italy, hundreds drown; Turkey’s president Erdogan tells Muslims not to use birth control; Population growth rate of Muslims and Christians
Contents: Decoration Day; Germany and France commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Verdun; The Germany – France reconciliation – 1984; Red poppies in Flanders Field; Pacifism and the futility of war
Contents: Economic collapse of Venezuela will devastate the entire Caribbean region; Lufthansa suspends flights to Venezuela over non-payment; Hugo Chávez dismantled Venezuela’s businesses on purpose to create Socialist Paradise
Contents: Report: Israel and Saudi Arabia are allying against Iran and Hezbollah; Iran and Hezbollah turn focus of hostility from Israel to Saudi Arabia; Shifting Israeli alliances in the Mideast
Contents: A disastrous year in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia; Iran bans Iranians from attending the Hajj in 2016; Far left anti-government riots spread across France
Contents: China demands new Taiwan leader explicitly affirm that Taiwan is part of China; IMF balks at new European bailout plan for Greece
Contents: Iran and India sign ‘historic’ deal for Iran’s Chabahar port; Chabahar port deal highlights enmity between Iran-India versus Pakistan-China; Iran, India and the classic fables of Kalileh-wa-Dimneh, Jataka and Panchatantra; The Caspian Corridor and the New Silk Road
Contents: Death of Afghan Taliban leader complicates America’s relationship with Pakistan; Massive explosions in Syria target Bashar al-Assad’s heartland
Contents: Austria deeply split between far-right and left-liberal candidates; Austria’s election part of a world-wide move to the right with deep polarization
Contents: Kazakhstan farmers riot over fears of encroachment from China; Afghan Taliban leader reportedly killed by US drone strike in Pakistan
Contents: Downed EgyptAir flight an economic disaster for Egypt; A dark shadow looms over EU-Turkey refugee deal, as Turkey passes harsh anti-Kurdish law
Contents: Netanyahu’s selection of Avigdor Lieberman criticized in and out of Israel; Lieberman’s lack of experience compared to Amir Peretz
Contents: Chinese official slams Hong Kong independence during ‘inspection visit’; Hong Kong’s history and culture make it very different from China
Contents: Venezuela’s Maduro accuses US of planning an imminent invasion; Syria peace talks in Vienna collapse in farce – again
Contents: Western nations agree to lift arms embargo on Libya to fight ISIS; ISIS continues to grow in Libya in size and effectiveness
Contents: China says Pentagon report on China military ‘severely damages’ relations; Pentagon documents massive China buildup, but omits ‘Maritime Militia’
Contents: Venezuela’s socialist economy close to a crash; Maduro orders jailing of owners of closed factories; Maduro recalls Brazil ambassador over Dilma Rousseff ‘coup’
Contents: Hezbollah suffers blow in death of top commander Mustafa Amine Badreddine; Iran suffers disastrous losses in battle of Khan Tuman; Offensive to recapture Aleppo may be near collapse
Contents: EU-Turkey migrant deal unravels over brinksmanship on both sides; More refugees now reaching Europe via Italy than via Greece; Italy rescues 800 migrants from Mediterranean Sea, many of them from Syria
Contents: England threatened with IRA terrorists from Northern Ireland; The ‘New IRA’ recalls the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule
Contents: Azerbaijan celebrates the ‘Days of Culture of Dagestan’; Azerbaijan and Dagestan share Sunni Salafist insurgencies; Nagorno-Karabakh issue still simmers
Contents: Arab countries seek to overturn the century old Sykes-Picot agreement; Syria: A victim of colonial politics; Palestine: Sykes-Picot and Balfour Declaration left a ‘savage legacy’; Lebanon: Survived Sykes-Picot largely intact
Contents: Workers riot as Greece braces for new austerity measures; After six years of real austerity, Greeks are at wits’ end; Bolivia accuses Chile of setting up military base near border
Contents: Tens of thousands in pro-EU anti-government protest in Warsaw Poland; Thousands of Berlin protesters chant ‘No Islam on German soil’; Hooded anarchists in Italy turn violent on Austrian border
Contents: London elects Sadiq Khan as mayor, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western city; Turkey’s Erdogan threatens EU: ‘We’ll go our own way, you go yours!’; Turkey says it will meet other EU requirements for lifting visa restrictions
Contents: With Turkey already in chaos, Erdogan forces PM Davutoglu to resign; Davutoglu’s resignation may complicate the EU-Turkey migrant deal; Syria and Russia continue ‘Grozny Model,’ killing women and children in Aleppo refugee camp
Contents: Britain will accept thousands of child refugees from European camps; European Commission threatens to fine countries that won’t accept migrants; Many in Asia oppose an Obama apology for 1945 nuking of Hiroshima