Informed Comment - Part 1212

The GOP Tax Plan Will Complete the Destruction of America’s Middle Class Wealth

By Bob Lord | ( Inequality.org ) | – – In fact, if the GOP tax plan becomes law, we may be looking at a […]

Why Arabs And Muslims Aren’t Exotic: The Grip of Orientalism (Video)

AJ+ | (Video Report) | – – “From Aladdin to Bodak Yellow, the media is obsessed with portraying Arabs and Muslims as exotic and mysterious. […]

contributors

Donald Trump

Our Pyromaniac President in a Flammable World

San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – “I’ve just heard that my family home near Carpenteria is literally in flames at this moment,” a friend told me […]

Rebecca Gordon

Israel/ Palestine

Turkey to defy Trump, open Embassy to Palestine in E. Jerusalem

Middle East Monitor | – – Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at […]

Juan Cole

Extreme Weather

Puerto Rico: On top of Everything Else, GOP Tax Bill is Racist

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, sent a letter to all the members of Congress yesterday, […]

Juan Cole

Democratic Socialism

Solar & Wind: How free electricity would change the world (Economist Video)

The Economist | (Video News Report) | – – “magine if heating and powering homes became free in the next decade. What would that mean […]

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Children

Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls

Human Rights Watch | – – Amendments Would Have Instated Discriminatory Laws on Family Matters (Beirut) – Iraq’s parliament has rejected proposed amendments to Iraq’s […]

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Climate Change