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Archives for September 2017

Buddhism
Can Turkey's Erdogan ride Rohingya Crisis to global Muslim Leadership?

Can Turkey’s Erdogan ride Rohingya Crisis to global Muslim Leadership?

Juan Cole

Turkey’s President has ambitions to lead the Muslim world

China
Floridians with Solar Inverters had Electricity after Irma & other Green energy success stories

Floridians with Solar Inverters had Electricity after Irma & other Green energy success stories

Juan Cole

Solar installations in the US and India have Burgeoned

Israel
Can Yosef Abramowitz make Solar Power Bloom in Fossil Fuels-Addicted Israel?

Can Yosef Abramowitz make Solar Power Bloom in Fossil Fuels-Addicted Israel?

Juan Cole

An American-Israeli entrepreneur promotes Solar Energy where it hasn’t been welcome

Far Right
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’

Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’

contributors

How the mindless algorithms of social media enabled the far right

Displaced and Refugees
Saudi-led Airstrikes on Yemen Deadly for Children

Saudi-led Airstrikes on Yemen Deadly for Children

contributors

Are Western weapons killing civilians in Yemen?

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
London Covered but 83 Iraqis killed in ISIL attack largely ignored by US TV News

London Covered but 83 Iraqis killed in ISIL attack largely ignored by US TV News

contributors

UK lives are precious but aren’t Iraqi lives, as well?

Featured
Russia rebuffs Israeli demand for 40 mi. Buffer with Iran in Syria (Haaretz)

Russia rebuffs Israeli demand for 40 mi. Buffer with Iran in Syria (Haaretz)

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – According to Haaretz Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Vldadimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, to keep Iranian troops and Hizbullah militiamen in Syria about 40 miles from the Israeli border. The Russian replied that these were matters for the Syrian Arab Army, but that […]

Elections
Can Iran keep its Influence in Baghdad?

Can Iran keep its Influence in Baghdad?

Juan Cole

Divisions in the Da`wa Party and Iraqi Nationalism pose Challenges to Tehran

Donald Trump
Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US

Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US

Juan Cole

Up Military Spending and cut Budget, & you’ll get a wasteland

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