Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Fariba Amini writes: Omer Bartov recently wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times in which […]
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Israeli Software to plant Propaganda on Social Media
IMEMC | – – The Israeli government has purchased a software system enabling it to monitor social media and specific users to plan ideas in […]
Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?
By Joseph Kirschke | (Next Billion) | – – In recent months, events across three continents showed how clean energy use by the mining industry, […]
Strongman: The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism
By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In 2016, something extraordinary happened in the politics of diverse countries around the world. With […]
PM May: Take back the Balfour Declaration – Israel reneged on the Bargain
By Ian Berman | (Informed Comment) | – – Dear Prime Minister May: The centennial of the Balfour Declaration is upon us. Accordingly, we think […]
Trump, al-Sisi and Tightening up the Pressure Cooker
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump met Monday with Egyptian field marshal/ president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Trump effused, “We agree […]
What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments
By Ingrid Anderson | (The Conversation) | – – This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside […]
Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Elizabeth Palmer reported from Ankara last Thursday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had difficult and […]
ISIL Threatens To Conquer Iran, issuing Rare Video In Persian
Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – The militant group Islamic State (IS) has vowed in a rare video message in Persian that includes […]
The Hundred Days From Hell
David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – As the sun rises on the 11th full week of the disgrace-riddled Barnum & Bailey dystopia known […]