by Elif Selin Calik

Last week saw the anniversary — on 3 October — of the tragic drowning of more than 300 migrants when their overcrowded vessel capsized off the coast of Italy. Despite such tragedies in the Mediterranean region, European countries are still debating how to tackle the migrant/refugee crisis. It has taken almost five years for some EU states to sign a draft proposal. The EU itself signed an agreement with Turkey in 2015.

by Yvonne Ridley

11 Oct 2019; MEMO: As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rolled out the military offensive called “Operation Peace Spring” on his country’s southern border with Syria, the big surprise was not the invasion itself but the reaction from the neighbouring Kurds and their supporters. All are, collectively, still reeling.

by Omar Ahmed

The 14th century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun is famed for his treatise Al-Muqqadimah and is regarded as “the father of social science”; he wrote about the rise and fall of states and civilisations.

By AW Siddiqui

According to a report published in UMMnews, four Jaish-e-Mohammed ‘terrorists’ have entered Delhi and are planning to strike during the festival season, in retaliation against the government's decision to end special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370.

All four are said to be heavily armed, and their plan is to target PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.

by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

2 Oct 2019; MEMO: He landed in his aircraft on festival day and gathered the sorcerers and masses at the airport to welcome him, in a cheap and comedic scene.

by Dr Adnan Abu Amer

24 Sep 2019; MEMO: The recent Egyptian protests have attracted the attention of the Israeli decision-making circles, both media and political, although Israeli officials – political, military and security – have declined to officially comment on the events in an effort not to embarrass their ally in the Ittihadiya Palace. However, this does not mean that there isn’t close contact between Cairo and Tel Aviv around the clock.

by Ramzy Baroud

23 Sep 2019; MEMO: Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception.

Although it is still true that no Israeli Zionist leader has ever been kind to the Palestinian people, the dynamics of the latest Israeli elections on September 17 are likely to affect the Occupied Palestinian Territories in a profound way.

by Eric Zuesse

Now Twitter is just as corrupt as Google and Facebook and MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the Washington Post and The Atlantic and all the rest. Propaganda organizations all.

Caitlin Johnstone nailed it, on September 12th, under the headline “Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align With The US Empire?” and she opened:

by Nasim Ahmed

16 Sep 2019; MEMO: Thirty-seven years ago this week, one of the bloodiest chapters in Palestinian history unfolded in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

by Dr. Yusuf Özkır

A book that the famous Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun wrote 130 years ago about his Istanbul visit has a striking content that sheds light on the origins of Western media's current biased attitude toward Turkey. We had better identify the present situation before conveying some of Hamsun's personal experiences related in the book. 

11 Sep 2019; Reuters/MEMO:

John Bolton’s departure from the White House removes an obstacle to the possibility of US-Iranian nuclear talks, but the odds of such a dialogue leading anywhere remain low, current and former US officials said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

by Motasem A Dalloul

Last Thursday, Israelis living abroad started to cast their votes to choose the make-up of the 22nd Israeli parliament, the Knesset. The General Election is slated to take place on 17 September.