Informed Comment - Part 1167

Ignoring White Supremacists, Trump Smears Immigrants as Terrorists

By Arnold R. Isaacs | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When you see an immigrant or a foreign visitor, especially from a Muslim country, should […]

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Featured

Netanyahu & Trump, both under Investigation, Meet on phony ‘Deal of the Century’

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Far right Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet Monday with far right white nationalist president […]

Juan Cole

Protestants

American Christian Zionism: The Deep Background and the Current Situation

By Shalom Goldman | (Informed Comment) | – – This season, the best-selling book in the U.S. is Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the […]

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Authoritarianism

The New Censorship: Beware Authoritarian leaders claiming to Fight “Fake News”

By Courtney C. Radsch | (Project Syndicate) | – – Laws meant to curb “fake news” may be well intentioned, but their implementation has been […]

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Bashar al-Assad

Yes, Newsweek & RT, Syria’s Regime uses Chemical Weapons

By Brian Whitaker | ( al-Bab.com) | – – False claims in the UN security council: Syria’s Bashar Ja’afari At a meeting [last month] of […]

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Corruption

Did an Emirates-Israel alliance Help elect Trump more than Russia?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – One of the surprises thrown up by the Gulf crisis and by the Mueller investigation is […]

Juan Cole

racism

Book Review: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By Alice Evans | ( British Politics and Policy at LSE) Book Review: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni […]

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Iran

Iran: Women Protesters against Veiling face Regime Prostitution Charges

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) The hijab became compulsory in Iran after the 1979 revolution. A small number of Iranian women, risking arrest to […]

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Inequality