Informed Comment - Part 1320

N. Korea Interview interrupted by Unbearable Cuteness

BBC | (Video News Clip) | – – “There was an unexpected distraction for Professor Robert Kelly when he was being interviewed live on BBC […]

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Arab Americans

To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing […]

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Featured

Is Russia trying to take back over Libya from NATO, Radicals?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters is reporting that some 22 Russian special operations forces have set up a base in […]

Juan Cole

Arab World

New Scientific Evidence that Middle East may become Uninhabitable

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME (IPS) – New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the […]

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Donald Trump

Kellyanne “Inspector Gadget” alleges Obama Microwave-Camera Surveillance

Huffington Post | (Non-Satirical Satire Video Clip) “Kellyanne Conway is backtracking on her claims that the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower by President Obama may […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Banksy hotel opens in Bethlehem, eliciting heated reactions by Palestinians

By Jaclynn Ashly and Reem Alqam | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s infamous separation wall in the occupied West Bank, […]

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African-Americans

Dear Rep. King: Our Civilization isn’t White and American Babies aren’t Other

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Rep Steve King of Iowa (whose constituents should be ashamed to show their faces in public […]

Juan Cole

racism

Addicted to Racism: Why Populists Literally get off on Bigotry

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | – – Only recently did I realise that people with racist prejudices have something to lose: their short-term […]

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Climate Change