Informed Comment - Part 1317

Amal Clooney and Nadia Murad Want to Stop an ISIL Genocide

Popsugar Entertainment | (Video Report) | – – “Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is hoping to help stop a genocide at the hands of ISIL […]

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Corruption

True, Trump hasn’t Criticized Putin for Navalny Arrest; but Navalny is more like Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The meme du jour about the protests in Russia on Sunday is that Donald Trump did […]

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Iraq

Mosul: ISIL Scorched Earth Tactics put Civilians in Crossfire

Special Correspondent* | Niqash.org | Baghdad | – – Mosul Locals Explain Extremists’ Desperate Tactics Mosul locals, some of whom have escaped the extremists and […]

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Dissent

What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about Resistance in Age of Trump

By Jon Else | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Progressive Young Jews Protest AIPAC, Occupation of Palestine

TeleSur | – – Protesters gathered under the banner, “Jews won’t be free until Palestinians are, reject AIPAC, reject occupation.” Jewish protesters marched Sunday outside […]

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Cats

Video of Day: Kitten tempted by Iran New Year Goldfish

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | (Video Clip) | – – March 21 was the Persian New Year (Now Ruz), marking also the first […]

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Displaced and Refugees

After Trump Massacres in Mosul, Campaign against ISIL Halted

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Candidate Donald Trump called last year for carpet-bombing of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. […]

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Corporate Surveillance

Can you stop House from selling out your online Privacy, as Senate Just Did?

By Ernesto Falcon | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Majority Leader McCarthy Confirms House to Immediately Act on Behalf of the Cable and Telephone […]

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Counter-Terrorism