Lawyering America’s return of $1.7 billion…in cash…to Iran. Burton’s inside story. Richard J. Burton Wednesday 4/4
War grinds on in Syria. Getting closer to US troops? Charles Glass NY Review of Books Author, Syria Burning Monday 2/26
War and misery grow in Syria, as the US military makes big plans. Roy Gutman, Foreign Correspondent Monday 2/19
From: Here Surrounded “Look at the map!” There’s little Kurdistan, surrounded by Iraq from which it wanted to secede, Turkey, whose dictator President is waging war against all the Kurds he can hurt; and Iran, the punisher next door.
The story of Mosul Eye, the blogger who became the world’s “inside source” on the occupied city Lori Hinnant, International Correspondent, AP Monday 1/22
The “interesting times” for women in Pakistan and the Islamic World Rafia Zakaria, author The Upstairs Wife, and Veil Thursday 1/18
From War in Afghanistan to Peace in “The World”: A Difficult Journey Thomas J Brennan and Finbarr O'Reilly Shooting Ghosts Tuesday 12/26
Tuesday 11/21 James Kirchick Author, The End of Europe Almost all Iraqi Kurds wanted independence; they didn’t get it, and may never.
