21WIRE + MEE | Muslim comedian sand boxed by Hollywood gatekeepers for “exposing grim truths” about the oil Kingdom.
Netflix Pulls Muslim Comedy Show After Saudi Complaint – ‘It was disrespectful to MBS’
Assange and Wikileaks Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared, Threatened or Censored
21WIRE + Mark Curtis | Once lauded, now vilified.
All Eyes on HTS: Buffer Zone Deadline Passes for ‘Al-Qaeda in Syria’
21WIRE + MEE | HTS is likely to face the consequences of failing to withdrawal from buffer zone around Idlib.
Khashoggi’s ‘Barbaric Murder’ Could Put Saudi-Turkish Relations on Ice
MEE | This issue cannot be simply reduced to the ‘silencing’ of Khashoggi – bigger geopolitical implications will surely emerge.
Israel Bans Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi from Travelling Abroad
Middle East Eye | Ban comes two months after Ahed was released after serving an eight-month sentence for slapping an Israeli soldier.
‘Masked Men’ Vigilantes Fighting Crime in ‘Failed Libyan State’
Middle East Eye | Volunteers in Zuwara in Libya’s far west have been fighting crime in the city for five years to fill the post-revolution power vacuum.
Pompeo on the Prowl: US Establishes ‘Action Group’ to Coordinate Anti-Iran Policies
Middle East Eye | An Iranian-American advocacy group said this latest move by Washington “echoes the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
Palestinian Israeli Citizens March Through Downtown Tel Aviv to Protest Nation-State ‘Apartheid’ Law
Middle East Eye | ‘The new generation will not accept this humiliation. We are aware and we are active. We are here.’
OPINION: Israel’s Nation-State Law is ‘Apartheid Resurrected’
Dr Haidar Eid | The ‘new-old’ Jewish nation-state law can be understood as the rebirth of apartheid.
Iran Files Lawsuit Against US in International Court Over Sanctions
Middle East Eye | Iran has filed a lawsuit alleging the US violated a treaty by imposing sanctions after it withdrew from the JCPOA aka the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’ earlier this year.