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Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Top 3 Bad Pieces of News for Trump in Flynn Plea Deal

Top 3 Bad Pieces of News for Trump in Flynn Plea Deal

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump got three pieces of bad news on Friday, along with the one good piece of news that he managed to lower taxes on himself and his billionaire cronies as the expense of health care for working people. The first piece of bad news is that […]

Donald Trump
Trump 'Working Visit' to Britain has to be Cancelled after he outrages all 65 million Britons

Trump ‘Working Visit’ to Britain has to be Cancelled after he outrages all 65 million Britons

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – You can’t take him anywhere. And, he is leaving a trail of US diplomatic catastrophes even with close allies. In the aftermath of massive and almost unanimous British outrage at Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim hate videos (one phony and two irrelevant to Muslims in general) posted […]

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Trump ‘To Recognise Jerusalem as Israeli Capital’: Reports

Trump ‘To Recognise Jerusalem as Israeli Capital’: Reports

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TeleSur | – – White House officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, suggested an announcement would be made early next week. Critics immediately warned such a move could prompt widespread Palestinian protests. U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly considering recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in an official announcement next week, a move […]

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Trump tries to undo FDR's rescue of UK from Fascism

Trump tries to undo FDR’s rescue of UK from Fascism

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Once upon a time, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent Ike Eisenhower as the Supreme Allied Commander to stage D-Day at Normandy Beach along with allies and save Britain from fascism. On Wednesday, our nazi president Donald J. Trump tried to press fascism on Britain, pissing all […]

Environment
Sanders pushes Marshall Plan, Renewables, for Puerto Rico as Trump tries to Lower own Taxes

Sanders pushes Marshall Plan, Renewables, for Puerto Rico as Trump tries to Lower own Taxes

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump went to Puerto Rico and told the hurricane victims there that they were inconvenient since the disaster that left them without potable water or electricity (nearly half still lack it) had put a crimp in the GOP budget. It later emerged that the GOP budget […]

Evolution
British Royal Family was already Multicultural, Descended from Muhammad

British Royal Family was already Multicultural, Descended from Muhammad

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The announcement that Prince Harry is set to marry American actress Meghan Markle provoked a flurry of articles about the British royal family becoming multicultural. The Washington Post actually has a headline about Britain’s “black queen.” (The peculiar American ‘one drop rule’ makes anyone with any […]

Jewish History
The Jewish Community in Multi-Cultural Morocco (Video)

The Jewish Community in Multi-Cultural Morocco (Video)

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Myriam Ait Malk | (Video Documentary) | – – Documentary on the Jewish Community in Morocco – by Myriam Ait Malk

Counter-Terrorism
With 305 dead in Sinai Terror, Trump babbles Wall & Visas

With 305 dead in Sinai Terror, Trump babbles Wall & Visas

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As the death toll in this weekend’s horrific terrorist attack on a Sufi mosque near El Arish in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula rose to at least 305, the patriarch of the Coptic Church, Tawadros II, affirmed the solidarity of Egypt’s some 8 million Christians with the Muslim […]

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Exciting news, folks: Informed Comment is in the midst of a major redesign and aims at becoming a magazine. The redesign is not cheap, and neither will be our plans to attract more writers for the site. And, we undertake this endeavor at a time when […]

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