By James M. Dorsey A United Arab Emirates-backed Saudi effort to wrest control from Jordan of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem signals a sharper, more overt edge to Saudi religious diplomacy and the kingdom’s quest for regional hegemony that risks deepening divides in the Muslim world. The effort also serves to support Donald J. Trump’s […]
Author Archives: Fred Branfman
Fred Branfman (1942-2014) was an American anti-war activist and author of a number of books about the Vietnam War. He brought the secret U.S. bombing of Laos to world attention in 1969. He has published a dozen articles on present U.S. secret war-making in the Muslim world. And his book, Voices from the Plain of Jars, is the only book on the Indochina War written from the perspective of the peasants who suffered. Fred passed away in 2014 at the age of 72
