Your Country Needs You! What nationality means to the modern-day footballer
By Henry Young, CNN (CNN) Growing up in Malmö, budding footballer Saman Ghoddos had the flags of both Sweden and Iran on his bedroom wall. He never anticipated he’d get … Continue reading
Iraqi People’s Mobilization Forces / the Popular Mobilization Units, arming children
More ICRtoP Resources on Iraq…
ICRtoP Blog: “Convert, Pay or Be Killed: Iraq’s Minorities under Threat” The Crisis in Iraq I. Background II. Peaceful Protests, Government Response, Activity by Terrorist Organizations III. ISIS Offensive and Humanitarian … Continue reading
What Would a Realist World Have Looked Like?
From Iraq and WMDs to Israel and Palestine to Syria and Russia, how the United States could’ve avoided some of its biggest mistakes. BY STEPHEN M. WALT – JANUARY 8, 2016 … Continue reading
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II
By James A. Lucas Global Research, April 01, 2017 Popular Resistance 27 November 2015 First published in November 2015 After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and … Continue reading
Apartheid Israel report has been removed from UN website here is your copy
MAR 18, 2017 — As the Secretary General has forced the author to resign – please forward this URL so that all can have a copy of the actual report https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/2017-03/un_apartheid_report_15_march_english_final_.pdf … Continue reading
Mohammad cartoons and 10 years-long debate about minority rights and press freedom
In 2007 Swedish artist Lars Vilks caused global controversy, after his drawings of the prophet Mohammed as a dog were published in the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. Many Muslims in … Continue reading
Here’s where Sweden’s foreigners come from
The Local- Published: 12 Sep 2016 Where do Sweden’s foreign-born residents come from? The refugee crisis makes it easy to presume that most who move to the Scandinavian country travel … Continue reading
What Is Aleppo? This Is Aleppo
ALAN TAYLOR – Earlier today, the Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson was asked by journalist Mike Barnicle “What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?” Johnson replied with his own … Continue reading
Striking photos of WWII refugees escaping to safety in Syria
It’s amazing how quickly we forget history. The current war refugee situation in Europe is not the first of its kind and will probably not be the last. Just 70 … Continue reading
Peace and Conflict studies 