Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A California Trend Worth Catching: College for All
By Chuck Collins | (Inequality.org) | – – Blogging Our Great Divide America’s left coast is showing how to break up concentrated wealth and fund […]
Trump’s US Slams Schoolhouse Door on Palestinian Refugees
By Gordon Brown | (Project Syndicate) | – – The US has decided to withhold more than half of its planned funding for the UNRWA […]
Iranian women risk arrest: Daughters of the revolution
Homa Hoodfar | (The Conversation) | – – In the lead-up to March 8, I am sometimes asked whether we really still need an International […]
Saudi Crown Prince Implicated: Credible reports of Torture and Murder in Ritz Carlton: NYT
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The late Saudi Maj. Gen. Ali al-Qahtani is said to have shown up at the morgue […]
Iraq: Al-Sadr & Communist Party ally against Corruption, Iranian Hegemony
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Nativist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, 44, is encouraging members of his Sadr Movement to vote in […]