John Kerry Is Said to Side With Diplomats’ Critical Memo on Syria Nour Youssef, The New York Times June 18, 2016 Image: Secretary of State John Kerry arriving in Copenhagen on Thursday. For a cabinet member whose department had just erupted into open disagreement with the White House, Secretary of StateJohn Kerry’s reaction to a critical memo on Syria policy signed by 51 diplomats was remarkably mellow. “It’s an important statement,” he

CONGRATULATIONS to IAGS member, Dr Rubina Peroomian of California for a new title: The Armenian Genocide in Literature, The Second Generation Responds Published by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan, Armenia. This volume, the fourth in Rubina's continuing study and analysis of Diasporan Armenian literature, shows that the children of survivors were affected by their parents' traumatic experience, and this is regardless of how

Politicizing Humanitarian Relief: The International Community Continues to Accept Khartoum’s Humanitarian Blockade in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile Eric Reeves  |  June 20, 2016  |  http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Ue Unseemly haste and a disgraceful refusal to accept the moral consequences of their action have prompted European countries to accelerate rapprochement with the Khartoum regime in order to step the flow of African refugees to Europe.

L.G.B.T. People Are More Likely to Be Targets of Hate Crimes Than Any Other Minority Group Hereon Park and Iaryna Mykhyalyshyn, The New York Times  16 June 2016  Image: Photo: Sarah Rice/Getty Images Even before the shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were already the most likely targets of hate crimes in America, according to an analysis of data collected by the Federal Bureau

Jo Cox and Britain’s Place in Europe Roger Cohen, The New York Times  20 June 2016 Image: Retrieved from http://www.scarymommy.com/great-britain-united-kingdom/  In politics, as in life, there is the question of the company you keep. Reasonable people, some friends of mine, make reasonable arguments forBritain to leave the European Union. They say it lacks transparency. They say a union containing an inner club of nations with a common currency,

Mississippi Ends Inquiry Into 1964 Killing of 3 Civil Rights Workers Campbell Robertson,  The New York Times  20 June 2016 Image: “I am convinced that during the last 52 years, investigators have done everything possible under the law to find those responsible and hold them accountable,” said Jim Hood, the Mississippi state attorney general, at a news conference. CreditRogelio V. Solis/Associated Press The investigation into the 1964 murders

Bahrain’s Sunni Rulers Revoke Citizenship of Top Shiite Cleric Rick Gladstone, The New York Times  20 June 2016  Image: Shiite clerics in the village of Diraz, west of Manama, Bahrain, protested on Monday the revocation of the citizenship of a top cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim. CreditMohammed Al-Shaikh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Escalating a crackdown on political opposition, the Sunni monarchy inBahrain said Monday that it

Bomb Kills Foreign Security Contractors in Kabul Kareem Fahim and Jawad Sukhanyar, The New York Times 20 June 2016     Video: Nepalese security guards traveling by bus were killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul on Monday. The Taliban took responsibility. By THE NEW YORK TIMES on Publish DateJune 20, 2016. Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters.  KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a minibus carrying Nepalese and Indian security

Doctors Without Borders Says It Won’t Take E.U. Money for Refugees Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times  17 June 2016  Image: A migrant family sat on train tracks outside their tent in a refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, in March. Tens of thousands of migrants are stranded in such camps in Greece. Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times GENEVA — Doctors Without Borders, one of Europe’s biggest charities, said Friday that it was turning

Saudi Imam, 2 Hijackers, A Lingering 9/11 Mystery Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, The New York Times June 17, 2016 Image: Khalid al-Mihdhar at Dulles International Airport near Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Mihdhar is one of two 9/11 hijackers who American investigators say may have been aided by a Saudi official. Inside an opulent palace in Riyadh late one evening in February 2004, two American investigators interrogated a man they believed