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Archives for July 2019

Donald Trump
Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion:  The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion: The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump keeps trying to hypnotize people by saying “No collusion, no obstruction,” and saying that Mueller exonerated him. Since so few Americans and so few in Congress will actually read the Mueller report, he thinks he can get away with the Big Lie. Mueller explicitly denied yesterday that he had […]

Donald Trump
Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Juan Cole

Reprint edition The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for the Trump administration to the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brokered by Mohammed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. That is, this story is not about […]

Climate Change
40 Years ago Climate Scientists achieved their own Moonshot, Accurately Predicting Global Heating

40 Years ago Climate Scientists achieved their own Moonshot, Accurately Predicting Global Heating

The Conversation

By Neville Nicholls | – This month the world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon. But this week sees another scientific anniversary, perhaps just as important for the future of civilisation. Forty years ago, a group of climate scientists sat down at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in […]

Turkey
On the Civil Struggle of Academics in Turkey: The Peace Petition Signers

On the Civil Struggle of Academics in Turkey: The Peace Petition Signers

contributors

By Iris Agmon | – On January 2016, a small Turkish organization of activists, Academics for Peace (AfP) called the Turkish government to stop its violent assault against the Kurdish towns and areas of Eastern Turkey and return to peace negotiations with the Kurdish leadership towards resolving the prolonged conflict between the Turkish state and […]

Nonviolence
How Progressive was Gene Sharp’s Nonviolence?

How Progressive was Gene Sharp’s Nonviolence?

Waging Nonviolence

Recent criticisms calling the founder of nonviolent theory a Cold Warrior are way off the mark. To rightly evaluate him, we need to understand the role he chose for himself.

Climate Change
From Concentration Camps to Environmental Collapse: How America became a Dystopian Nightmare

From Concentration Camps to Environmental Collapse: How America became a Dystopian Nightmare

Andrew J. Bacevich

( Tomdispatch.com ) – [Editorial note: This remnant of a manuscript, discovered in a vault near the coastal town of Walpole, Massachusetts, appears to have been part of a larger project, probablyenvisioned as an interpretive history of the United States since the year 2000. Only a single chapter, probably written near the midpoint of the […]

Featured
Iran:  How Bolton tricked Clueless UK Conservatives into Confrontation with Tehran

Iran: How Bolton tricked Clueless UK Conservatives into Confrontation with Tehran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Simon Tisdall at The Guardian explains the difference between Socialist Spain and the disorganized Conservatives in control of UK on foreign policy. US national security adviser John Bolton tried to hoodwink both of them about the Grace I, a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker carrying Iranian petroleum through the Straits of Gibraltar. […]

Israel/ Palestine
How US Law Restricting Satellite Imagery of Palestine-Israel Hurts Health, Environmental Research

How US Law Restricting Satellite Imagery of Palestine-Israel Hurts Health, Environmental Research

Al-Shabaka

by Zena Agha | – Bipartisan legislation passed by the US Congress in 1997 limits the quality and availability of satellite imagery of Palestine-Israel. The Kyl-Bingaman Amendment (KBA) to the US National Defense Authorization Act was passed under the pretext of protecting Israel’s national security. It prevents US satellite operators and retailers from selling or […]

Iran
Crickets from European Union over Questionable UK Seizure of Iran tanker: With Brexit, London should Get Used to It

Crickets from European Union over Questionable UK Seizure of Iran tanker: With Brexit, London should Get Used to It

The Conversation

By Barry Ryan | – It’s rare to experience silence in this age of political anger and loudness, of bombastic tweets, insulting truths and incredible lies. It’s so unfashionable for a politician to not immediately respond to an event with lightening praise or withering cynicism, that when we hear nothing, it seems as though something […]

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