Informed Comment - Part 1283

4 Nations twist Qatar’s arm, to close down Aljazeera

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a bid completely to return the Middle East to the old system of strict government […]

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Iraq

Can the Sadr Movement in Iraq overcome Sectarianism with new Shiite-Sunni-Kurdish Party?

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | ( Niqash.org) | – – One of Iraq’s most powerful political groupings, the Sadrist movement, is trying to form […]

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Iraq

Was ISIL’s destruction of Mosul’s Nuri Mosque Grand Strategy?

By Benjamin Isakhan and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona | (The Conversation) | – – On June 29 2014 – nearly three years ago to the […]

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Donald Trump

What will Happen when Trump’s Dupes Find Out?

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps. […]

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In Apocalyptic Vandalism, ISIL blows up 800-year-old Nuri Mosque in Mosul

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – al-Hayat (Life) reports that on Wednesday evening around 9:30 pm local time, Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) blew […]

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Donald Trump

All Signs from Trump Point to a Coming Conflict with Iran

By John Feffer | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – Behind all of Trump’s boneheaded policies in the Middle East is an unmistakable urge […]

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Islam-hatred

What to do when anti-Muslim Hate Speech now passes the Dinner Table Test?

By Chris Allen | (The Conversation) | – – On hearing the news that Darren Osborne was arrested for terror offences including attempted murder following […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Will New Crown Prince in Riyadh Usher in Open Saudi-Israeli Alliance?

TeleSur | – – The young Saudi king-in-waiting has been hailed as a “modernizer” for his open support of normalizing ties with the Israeli occupation, […]

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