Informed Comment - Part 1175

Are Iran’s protests Economic or Political?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Neoconservative poobah Elliott Abrams slammed the New York Times for headlining an article about the Iran […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Ruling Party Votes to Annex West Bank and Seize Last Palestinian Lands

TeleSur | – – “This is a historic event that we have been waiting for,” an extremist member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party said. […]

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Nonviolence

Soldiers of Peace: How to Wield the Weapon of Nonviolence With Maximum Force

H. Patricia Hynes, Review of Paul K. Chappell, Soldiers of Peace (Easton Studio Press, 2017) Author and prominent peace educator Paul Chappell observed that he […]

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Democratic Socialism

Can Corporate Power Be Controlled in the Age of Trump? Steps Toward a Constructive Liberal-Left Alliance

By G. William Domhoff |( Who Rules America?) | – – Based in good part on findings within the subfield of sociology known as power […]

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Donald Trump

Top 5 Signs Trump doesn’t Actually Care about Iranian Protesters

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump has tweeted as though he cares about the welfare of the Iranian protesters in small […]

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Climate Change

When Companies Deny Climate Science, Their Workers Pay

General Electric doubled down on coal. Now, 12,000 workers are paying the price.

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Colonialism

2017 was so Gross we even had to relitigate Evils of Colonialism

Joseph McQuade | (The Conversation) | – – Recently an academic article, asserting the historical benefits of colonialism, created an outcry and a petition with […]

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