Informed Comment - Part 1225

Nuclear Apocalypse by Accident? Age of Trump

By John Buell | (Informed Comment) | – – Ironically, President Trump’s frequent nuclear blustering serves to hide one aspect of the nuclear risk. Focus […]

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Corruption

R.I.P. The Internet, 1983-2017: End of Online Liberty

By Corynne McSherry and Elliot Harmon | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gets ready to abandon a […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Israeli Policies eroding Rights of Palestinian children in Occupied West Bank

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — On the anniversary of Universal Children’s Day, international NGO Save the Children released a statement highlighting […]

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Bill of Rights

Trump’s attack on UCLA Athletes’ right to Dissent an Attack on America

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – So Trump intervened with Chinese authorities to release three UCLA basketball players guilty of shoplifting from […]

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Barack Obama

Come Back, Barack – SNL/ Chance the Rapper Video

Chance the Rapper et al. | Saturday Night Live | (Video Clip) | – – De-Von-Tré (Chance the Rapper, Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd) wishes President […]

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Climate Change

COP23: Global Heating threatens Mideast with Mega-Droughts

By Christophe Maroun | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – As the world's nations met in Bonn, Germany for the 23rd annual conference of the parties […]

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Donald Trump

MbS a la Trump: “Making Saudi Arabia Great Again”!

By Reese Erlich | ( 48hills.org) | – – I stood in front of a mosque in the city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, interviewing people […]

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Donald Trump

Trump’s revival of ‘Tactical Nuclear Weapons’ Idiocy endangers World

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, […]

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Displaced and Refugees