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Archives for October 2019

Israel/ Palestine
Time for a Paradigm Shift in Israel:  From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

Time for a Paradigm Shift in Israel: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

Ian S. Lustick

(Informed Comment) – Equipped with the concept of the one-state reality, we can see in one particular feature of today’s political soap opera the seeds of profound and hopeful change. Politics in Israel, as elsewhere, can be approached as unfolding in three kinds of time: geological, strategic, and sports. States, peoples, and political systems appear, […]

Christianity
Is Allah God?   A Christian Theologian Replies

Is Allah God? A Christian Theologian Replies

Emir-Stein Center

Emir-Stein Center Video | Miroslav Volf | – “Is Allah God? If the answer to this question were simple, Professor Miroslav Volf would not have written a whole book on the subject. Still, in this engaging short video, Professor Volf provides a brief summary of the answer. Professor Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor […]

Bernie Sanders
Topsy-Turvy: Corporate Media Depict Bernie Sanders as "Extreme" and the Republican Party as Mainstream!

Topsy-Turvy: Corporate Media Depict Bernie Sanders as “Extreme” and the Republican Party as Mainstream!

John Buell

(Informed Comment) – Is a candidate a centrist? This question matters because many voters like to think of themselves as moderates or centrists. Other voters, not heavily engaged in the political process, are responsive to labels. Therefore the candidate who captures the label in the eyes of the corporate media has a leg up. But […]

al-Qaeda
US Militarism, having Provoked ISIL into Being, Kills Cult Leader Baghdadi

US Militarism, having Provoked ISIL into Being, Kills Cult Leader Baghdadi

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the nom de guerre of the notorious Iraqi terrorist Ibrahim al-Samarrai, is dead, killed in a US special forces raid on his compound in Syria’s northwest Idlib province. Declared a “caliph” in 2014, this minor cultist helped turn the Fertile Crescent into a charnel house. From a […]

Donald Trump
The Ukraine Whistleblowers and the Question of Partisanship

The Ukraine Whistleblowers and the Question of Partisanship

Foreign Policy in Focus

By Hannah Gurman and Kaeten Mistry | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – This moment should spark a conversation about the place of national security whistleblowing in a democratic society. “We must determine the whistleblower’s identity,” tweeted Donald Trump, who has become obsessed with finding and punishing the individual(s) that blew the whistle on […]

Israel Lobbies
Why Criticism of Israel Isn't Antisemitism

Why Criticism of Israel Isn’t Antisemitism

AJ PLUS

AJ+ Video | Matt Lieb | – “Progressives criticizing Israel keep being painted as antisemites. Why? Because according to many American politicians, criticizing the right-wing government of Israel is anti-Semitic. Newsbroke’s Matt Lieb explains how this twisted conservative, catch-all defense actually upholds the white nationalist cause… in America.” AJ+ “Why Criticism Of Israel Isn’t Antisemitism” […]

Climate Crisis
Volcanoes and Climate History: What they Explain & What they Don’t

Volcanoes and Climate History: What they Explain & What they Don’t

The Conversation

By Michael Petterson | – Everyone is going on about reducing our carbon footprint, zero emissions, planting sustainable crops for biodiesel etc. Is it true what the internet posts say that a volcano eruption for a few weeks will make all our efforts null and void? The pretext to this question is understandable. The forces […]

Featured
Did US Officials Manipulate Trump into Sending Back Troops from Iraq to Syria "for the oil"?

Did US Officials Manipulate Trump into Sending Back Troops from Iraq to Syria “for the oil”?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) | – NBC reports that a US convoy of light armored vehicles carrying special operations forces has been sighted heading from Iraq into northeast Syria and then south to the oil-rich Deir al-Zor province, with attack helicopters hovering above. You have to wonder if the Kurds pelted them with rotten vegetables […]

BDS
Nelson Mandela's Church Joins Boycott, Divestment from Israel to Continue anti-Apartheid Struggle

Nelson Mandela’s Church Joins Boycott, Divestment from Israel to Continue anti-Apartheid Struggle

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced “Israel’s ongoing ill-treatment and oppression of Palestinian people, and the historic prophetic role played by the church and international […]

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