Informed Comment - Part 1242

Trump flip-flops on Afghanistan, opts for Years-long Quagmire

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The 16-years-long Afghanistan War has bedeviled Washington decision-makers since the US invasion of fall, 2001, which […]

It’s Not About ‘White Culture’

By Jill Richardson | (Otherwords.org) | – – There’s no way to march with KKK members and Nazi flags in a non-hateful way. “I came […]

Counter-Terrorism

Can Iraq save Tal Afar from ISIL without Destroying the City?

By Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) | – – [N.B. The offensive against ISIL (Daesh) in Tal Afar began on Sunday. – JC] Intensive air raids, […]

ISIL in Afghanistan Resilient despite Kabul Offensive

By Frud Bezhan. | ( RFE/RL) | – – A relentless air-and-ground campaign against the [so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS) affiliate in Afghanistan does not […]

astronomy and outer space

Why no Eclipse Denialists? The Same Science predicts Global Heating

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Eminent physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tweet pointing out that there are no eclipse denialists the way […]

Environmentalism

Green Norway: Will it be the World’s First post-Carbon Society?

By Sam Morgan | EurActiv.com | – – Norway has the renewable resources and political will to become the world’s first country to use entirely […]

Israel/ Palestine

Racist Israeli Youth attack Israeli Soldiers, shouting “You are Arabs!”

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) –Two Israeli soldiers were attacked on Friday night in a public park in the town of Pardes […]

White Supremacy was already dying in the 1860s & can’t be Revived

By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | – – One statue of Robert E. Lee that will probably remain standing is at the battlefield of […]

Trump Pledged to Carpet Bomb ISIL, but Little Lebanon is Taking them On

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Lebanese Army has mobilized to clean out an ISIL enclave in a mountainous region on […]

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