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Iraq
Will Kurdish Soldiers Withdraw From Parts Of Mosul Their Leaders Covet?

Will Kurdish Soldiers Withdraw From Parts Of Mosul Their Leaders Covet?

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By Histyar Qader | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | – – Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan have agreed where Kurdish military should fight. But, as commanders worry, there’s been no agreement as to how long Kurdish soldiers will stay after the Islamic State leave. According to a statement from the Iraqi Kurdish government, around 35,000 of their […]

Evolution
White College Students Angry they originated in Africa

White College Students Angry they originated in Africa

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TeleSur | – – A group of white students at Texas State University stormed out of anthropology class Friday after the professor explained all humans were descended from Africa. The walkout caused heated debate with the remaining students chanting “Black lives matter” and criticizing the racist attitude of their classmates. According to the students, Professor […]

Libya
Failing Libya

Failing Libya

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By Alison Pargeter | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – If peace and national unity in Libya seem remote five years after the fall of the Qadhafi regime, western powers and the international community bear much of the responsibility. On 20 October 2011, former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qadhafi was dragged out of his sewage-pipe hideout […]

Iraq
Will Turkey, Iran & Iraq make the Mosul Campaign a Land Grab?

Will Turkey, Iran & Iraq make the Mosul Campaign a Land Grab?

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By James Miller | ( RFE/RL ) | – – We may be witnessing the end of the extremist group, the [so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS), as we know it. Over the weekend, the coalition of Turkish military soldiers and Syrian rebel groups, backed by a small number of U.S. Special Operations Forces and air […]

Democratic Party
Polls:  Capt. Trump aiming GOP Flight 2016 at nearest mountain

Polls: Capt. Trump aiming GOP Flight 2016 at nearest mountain

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David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – In weighted opinion polls, Hillary Clinton crushed Donald J. Trump in Wednesday night’s debate, with a 10 to 13 percent spread. On Wednesday night, an accomplished, intelligent woman with painstakingly constructed plans for the future of American society and a wonk’s grasp on policy once again spent […]

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Roasts Donald Trump At 2016 Al Smith Dinner

Hillary Clinton Roasts Donald Trump At 2016 Al Smith Dinner

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Fox 10 Phoenix | (Video) | – – “Hillary Clinton isn’t holding back against Donald Trump at the annual Al Smith dinner in New York. Clinton joked that if Trump didn’t like what she was saying, then he could “shout `wrong.”‘ She added that she was surprised Trump let her go second because “I didn’t […]

Bernie Sanders
Now is the time to remember Bernie Sanders: Can a new Political Center yet Emerge?

Now is the time to remember Bernie Sanders: Can a new Political Center yet Emerge?

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Joseph Saltarelli | (Huffington Post) | – – “[Jill] to the left of me, [Hillary] to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you” – Adapted from Stealers Wheel Amid all the “sound and fury” of the Clinton-Trump spectacle, what of Bernie Sanders and his “political revolution”? Given its disappointing and dispiriting […]

Arms Sales
Selling arms to Arab rulers won’t improve security in the Middle East

Selling arms to Arab rulers won’t improve security in the Middle East

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By Stephanie Dornschneider | (Informed Comment) | – – As a child, Najeh Ibrahim, who founded one of the most violent groups in recent Egyptian history, loved his president. “We all loved Nasser,” he recalls. However, Ibrahim’s positive attitude toward the leader of his country changed. Observing waves of arrests in which Muslim Brothers and […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Jim Crow:  US-led 'Peace Process' Completely Collapses

Israeli Jim Crow: US-led ‘Peace Process’ Completely Collapses

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By Sandy Tolan | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Washington has finally thrown in the towel on its long, tortured efforts to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians. You won’t find any acknowledgement of this in the official record. Formally, the U.S. still supports a two-state solution to the conflict. But the Obama administration’s recent […]

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