Informed Comment - Part 1163

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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Saudi Arabia

Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen

Middle East Monitor | – – Violent clashes broke out Thursday in Al-Mahrah governorate between Saudi Arabia’s forces and unidentified armed smugglers, Aden Tomorrow reported. […]

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film

Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes

TeleSur | – – Facebook seems to have deleted the racist, sexist group’s page while the popular movie-ranking site announced its plan as hate speech. […]

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Environment

11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs

By Joleah Lamb | (The Conversation) | – – There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, […]

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Donald Trump

Spying on the Wrong People: The Hypocrisy of the Nunes Memo & FISA

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The frenzy over the Nunes memo, likely to be released later today by the Trump administration, […]

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Banking

The Great Trump Bubble

Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald […]

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Israel/ Palestine

206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying […]

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Green Energy