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Archives for November 2016

Far Right
The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind

The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn’t much chance he can win), he will leave behind a toxic legacy of increased racial and religious hatred, which he has deliberatedly stirred up in order to take the focus off his policies– policies that […]

African-Americans
Federal Judge Puts End to "Insane" Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

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By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – ‘Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken away,’ says Rev. William Barber II of the NC NAACP. Granting hopeful reprieve to thousands of potentially disenfranchised voters ahead of Tuesday’s election, a federal judge late Friday issued an […]

Authoritarianism
Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility

Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility

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By Mehmet Ugur | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Let us stop pretending otherwise: Turkey is now under a dictatorial regime established step by step under the gaze of, and with tacit support from western governments and institutions. Kurdish and democratic forces within the country are paying a heavy price, not only because of the […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians

The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians

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By Aimee Shalan | al-Shabakah | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Current British Complicity It is not only corporate entities such as G4S in the case of Dareen Tatour that are infringing on free speech on Israel’s behalf. At a time when international pressure on Israel is increasing, the UK government and a number […]

Climate Change
Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed

Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I used the word “suppressed” in the title quite deliberately. Corporate television media in the United States is colluding in a cover-up of the threat of climate change, and they have specifically blacked out the climate change issue with regard to this election. The guilty parties […]

Democratic Party
FBI Faction Hostile to Clinton Possibly Behind Leaks

FBI Faction Hostile to Clinton Possibly Behind Leaks

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TeleSur | – – Current FBI agents have told outlets that there are elements within the agency leaking info in order to favor Donald Trump. FBI Director James Comey was driven in part by a fear of leaks from within his agency when he decided to tell Congress the FBI was investigating newly discovered emails […]

Israel/ Palestine
Britain, Balfour, and 100 years of cultural repression of Palestinians (Part I)

Britain, Balfour, and 100 years of cultural repression of Palestinians (Part I)

contributors

By Aimee Shalan | Al-Shabaka | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – If Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour passes over the perimeter of her home’s driveway in her village of Reineh in the Galilee, an alarm will sound at the British multinational security firm G4S and the Israeli authorities will be alerted. Israeli police arrested Tatour […]

Iraq
Payback Time: Mosul Militias Backstabbed By ISIL Plot Revenge

Payback Time: Mosul Militias Backstabbed By ISIL Plot Revenge

contributors

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – It’s not only the Iraqi army gunning for the Islamic State in Mosul. The extremists’ former allies, who helped them control the city, have also declared a desire for revenge, two years after they were betrayed. On October 17, just before dawn in Iraq, the […]

Featured
Turkish Gov't arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship

Turkish Gov’t arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Turkish government has detained 11 members of parliament from the leftist, feminist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),including the party’s co-chairs. This step is intended to give Erdogan the majority in parliament he needs to make himself president for life, and to give Turkey (currently […]

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