Informed Comment - Part 1233

Trump’s Bluster meets the Afghanistan Reality amid Troop Escalation

By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Prince Charles baffled no US President will take on Israel Lobbies

Middle East Monitor | – – Prince Charles has come under fire after it came to light that he blamed the “influx of foreign Jews” […]

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Economy

GOP Tax Breaks for Billionaires would Help Trump Appointees Most of All

by Allan Sloan. | ( ProPublica) | – – The Republican proposal will not only allow them to pass millions (or billions) to their heirs […]

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Wind powered all of Scotland in October & other Renewable Success Stories

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Wind and solar keep falling in price– each fell 6% in 2016. That fall was not […]

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Lebanon

Saudi failures, from Qatar to Yemen, bode ill for its Success in Lebanon

By Beverly Milton-Edwards | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Domestic politics in the Middle East especially in a country like Saudi Arabia never stays […]

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Donald Trump

Unlike Houston, only 43% of Puerto Rico has Power 7 weeks on

MSNBC | (Video News Report) | – – “Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September. It’s November and power went out again. Velshi and Ruhle […]

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Climate Change

Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling […]

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Nasrullah: Saudi has declared war on Lebanon

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Hassan Nasrullah, the secretary-general of Hizbullah accused Saudi Arabia of declaring […]

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Brazil