San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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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