Informed Comment - Part 1213

Informed Comment Fundraiser: Support Independent Journalism!

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Exciting news, folks: Informed Comment is in the midst of a major redesign and aims at […]

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Counter-Terrorism

What Causes Mideast Extremism? It’s the Dictatorships, Stupid!

Middle East Monitor | – – The Foreign Minister of Qatar said on Thursday that extremism in the Middle East is the result of authoritarianism, […]

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Donald Trump

‘Trump Talks Too Much’: Iran Shrugs Off Oil Boycott Threat

TeleSur | – – An Iranian official said Trump sees himself as the chief of a global village: “This comes as he is just the […]

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Climate Change

Trump still wants Expensive Coal but the Market wants Cheap wind & Solar

By Jonathan Marshall | (Consortiumnews.com) | – – Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance […]

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Bashar al-Assad

Will Trump manage to stab both Syrian Kurds and Turkey in the Back at same time?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is alleged to have promised Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that he will cease arming the […]

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Egypt

Extremists Kill 235 at Mosque in Egypt’s Sinai

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A massive explosion went off outside a mosque in the small town (pop. 2500) of Rawdah […]

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Donald Trump

The Falsehood of Trump’s ‘Precision Strikes’ and ‘Clean Wars’

By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Trump’s worldview promises low-cost military success. The blasting apart of civilian lives in Iraq says otherwise. […]

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censorship

Saudi Arabia makes it ‘Terrorism’ to Criticize the King

Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – Saudi Arabia’s new counterterrorism law includes vague and overly broad definitions of acts of terrorism, in […]

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Israel/ Palestine