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Archives for November 2022

Constitution
It isn’t Enough that Oath Keepers were Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy: Trump must be, Too

It isn’t Enough that Oath Keepers were Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy: Trump must be, Too

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ryan Lucas and Carrie Johnson at NPR report that on Tuesday, a jury convicted five leaders of the fascist Oath Keepers militia of “obstructing an official proceeding” by being involved in the invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to keep Congress from certifying the election […]

Israel/ Palestine
Are Israel’s Nuclear Weapons — an Open Secret — the Greatest Threat to the Middle East?

Are Israel’s Nuclear Weapons — an Open Secret — the Greatest Threat to the Middle East?

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic western hypocrisy. ‘The […]

Feminism
Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

Headwear and Hegemony: how ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests are threatening Iran’s ruling Clergy

The Conversation

By Negar Partow, Massey University | – (The Conversation) – The ongoing protests in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country’s “Guidance Patrol” (or morality police) have made world headlines. But there is another form of protest that has received less mainstream attention in Western media. Whereas […]

Donald Trump
The MAGAfication of America: The White Nationalist Coup isn’t Over

The MAGAfication of America: The White Nationalist Coup isn’t Over

Tomdispatch

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Just in case you didn’t notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An unprecedented majority of candidates from one of the nation’s two major political parties were committed to undemocratic policies and outcomes. You would have to go back to the Democratic Party-dominated […]

Featured
Israel: Netanyahu puts Homophobic Fundamentalist who doesn’t think most American Jews are Jewish in Charge of Office of Jewish Identity

Israel: Netanyahu puts Homophobic Fundamentalist who doesn’t think most American Jews are Jewish in Charge of Office of Jewish Identity

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – So Noam is a far right Jewish fundamentalist party in Israel that has a connection to the Har Hamor seminary in Jerusalem. One of its leaders is Rabbi Zvi Tau, who seems to have a conspiracy theory that LGBTQ groups have prevented Israelis from implementing Jewish law, the Halakha. He […]

China
A Letter to President Joe Biden: About that pledge you Made of “Diplomacy First”

A Letter to President Joe Biden: About that pledge you Made of “Diplomacy First”

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Dear Joe, Remember the mid-March snowball fight with some boys in our 8th grade class at St Helena’s School in Wilmington, Delaware? The snow was wet and made for hard, icy snowballs, so I hid my young sister Monica behind a parked car. You joined me against the […]

Climate Crisis
To fight the Climate Crisis, We need to stop expanding Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas

To fight the Climate Crisis, We need to stop expanding Offshore Drilling for Oil and Gas

The Conversation

By Daniel Skerritt, University of British Columbia and Claire Huang, Duke University | – Environmental disaster struck the shores of Peru on Jan. 15, 2022, when Spanish energy company Repsol spilled 12,000 barrels of crude oil into the Bay of Lima after its tanker ruptured. The spill endangered 180,000 birds and destroyed the livelihoods of […]

Israel
Israel Must not Include Fascist Parties in its New Government:  L.A. Jews for Peace

Israel Must not Include Fascist Parties in its New Government: L.A. Jews for Peace

contributors

LA Jews for Peace Policy Statement Los Angeles, CA. November 28, 2022 Contact: info@LAJewsforPeace.org Israel must not include Fascist Parties in its New Government LA Jews for Peace look on in horror as Benjamin Netanyahu is forming a majority Israeli government that will include the Religious Zionist Party. The Religious Zionist Party is led by […]

Featured
Could Iran’s Kurdish Protests and the Ayatollahs’ Determination to Crush Them Destabilize Neighboring Iraq?

Could Iran’s Kurdish Protests and the Ayatollahs’ Determination to Crush Them Destabilize Neighboring Iraq?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The protests roiling Iran this fall have had an epicenter in Iranian Kurdistan in the west of the country. The death in the custody of the Shiite morality police of Tehran of a Kurdish young woman, Mahsa “Zhina” Amini, rallied Kurdish-Iranian subnationalism. Cities like Mahabad, Saqqez, and Sanandaj have seen […]

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