Informed Comment - Part 1136

Turkey says US & Kurds will Leave Manbij or Else, Prepares for Iraq Incursion

Middle East Monitor | – – Turkey and the US will oversee the withdrawal of forces allied to the YPG (People’s Protection Units) from the […]

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astronomy and outer space

Renowned Physicist, Social Activist Stephen Hawking Dead at 76

TeleSur | – – In addition to his achievement in science, Hawking was a longstanding activist for numerous social causes. British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking […]

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Donald Trump

Pushing back against Trump Criminalization of Immigrants

By Aviva Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The immigration debate seems to have gone crazy. President Obama’s widely popular Deferred Action for Childhood […]

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Featured

How Trump is losing in Syria & why Haley is Posturing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Well, I say Trump is losing, but it isn’t clear that Trump has a policy in […]

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Far Right

European Fascism plots to change American Culture

By Juliette Legendre | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Far more dangerous than the far-right effort to win elections alone is its concerted […]

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Haredim

1/3 of Israelis live in Poverty, especially Palestinians & Ultra-Orthodox

Middle East Monitor | – – Israel has one of the highest poverty rates of any developed country with the gap between the rich and […]

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Kurds

Kurdish Civilians pledge to shield Afrin from Turkish Invasion with their Bodies

TeleSur | – – The YPG and allied forces, under the umbrella organization the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), control over 60 percent of the Syrian […]

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Education