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What Rapid Climate Change Looks Like: the Younger Dryas Comet
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has long puzzled scientists that the gradual ending of the last glacial maximum or ice age […]
Can American Democracy survive six Standing Wars?
William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Whether the rationale is the need to wage a war on terror involving 76 countries […]
Right’s ban on phrase “Polish Death Camps” Backfires on Warsaw
Sławomir Sierakowski | (Project Syndicate) | – – A new Polish law criminalizes blaming Poles for any wrongdoing against other nations. But the move only […]
The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran’s Compulsory Hijab Laws
By Mahsa Alimardani | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – A spate of defiant Iranian women have taken to the streets of Tehran to protest […]
Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians
Exposes Asylum Seekers to Further Risk, Abuse
Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian side of the story, presented in the Syrian press, is that an al-Qaeda-linked group […]
Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi
TeleSur | – – Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian […]
Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe
By Miriam Pemberton | (Otherwords.org) | – – Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the […]
The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians that the Nunes memo is a dud, dead on […]
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