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Egypt
Pope Francis, Islam and Peace-Building

Pope Francis, Islam and Peace-Building

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Interview by Jayson Casper | (Informed Comment) | – – Dr. Kamal Boraiqa is a lecturer at al-Azhar University and a member of al-Azhar Center for Dialogue, the al-Azhar Observer for Combating Extremism, and the Egyptian Family House. With a PhD from al-Azhar in Islamic Studies, he has served as an imam at the Santa […]

Elections
Iran:  Will Voters' Economic Gloom Doom Rouhani's Reelection Bid?

Iran: Will Voters’ Economic Gloom Doom Rouhani’s Reelection Bid?

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By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | – – Markets breathed a collective sigh of relief after Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency. But there’s another vote this month that’s just as consequential yet has received far less attention: Iran’s May 19 presidential election. If the incumbent moderate Hassan Rouhani doesn’t win a second term, […]

Featured
What will new French President Macron do about Syria & ISIL?

What will new French President Macron do about Syria & ISIL?

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Now that Emmanuel Macron is president of France, it is worthwhile asking what sort of foreign policy he would be likely to pursue. The French presidential system is more centralized than the American. I once did some consulting at the Quai D’Orsay, the French Foreign Ministry, […]

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Talks Dems, Trump, Palestine, Syria (AJ+)

Bernie Sanders Talks Dems, Trump, Palestine, Syria (AJ+)

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Dena Takruri | (AJ+) | (Video News report) | – – “Senator Bernie Sanders unfiltered – in this AJ+ interview with Dena Takruri, he opens up about the Democratic Party, President Trump, Palestine and Syria.” AJ+: “Bernie Sanders Talks Democrats, President Trump, Palestine And Syria”

Donald Trump
Fake President

Fake President

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By Neal Gabler | ( Billmoyers.com) | – – Donald Trump is master of perception, altering reality to distract the public from his lack of character. President Donald Trump shows an executive order entitled, “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch” after signing it beside members of his Cabinet in the Oval Office on March […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel to vote on Bill making it a "Jewish State," demoting Arabic

Israel to vote on Bill making it a “Jewish State,” demoting Arabic

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli cabinet committee approved a contested bill on Sunday seeking to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish state into the country’s central legislation, sparking concern the heightened discrimination Palestinians would face should it become law. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted unanimously to move the […]

Donald Trump
End the Imperial Presidency:  Do we Really Want Trump Assassinating and Launching Wars at Will?

End the Imperial Presidency: Do we Really Want Trump Assassinating and Launching Wars at Will?

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By Andrew Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad — from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to […]

Health
GOP Rep. Labrador: "Nobody dies b/c they don't have... Health Care"

GOP Rep. Labrador: “Nobody dies b/c they don’t have… Health Care”

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DeMarco Morgan | (CBSN) | (Video News Report) | – – “An Idaho lawmaker is facing intense scrutiny after defending the GOP health care bill. During a town hall, Rep. Raul Labrador said that “nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.” CBSN’s DeMarco Morgan has more.” 1. CBS News: “Idaho lawmaker faces […]

Climate Change
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic

Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic

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By Jane Palmer | Mosaic, the science of life | – – A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the world and climate change is making it worse. Jane Palmer meets the doctors who are trying to understand it and stop it. By 10 am in the sugarcane fields outside the town of […]

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