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As Huckabee and MTG attack Israel over anti-Christian Pogroms, is the Alliance with White Christian Nationalism  Fraying?
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As Huckabee and MTG attack Israel over anti-Christian Pogroms, is the Alliance with White Christian Nationalism Fraying?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the militarily occupied West Bank conducted a pogrom against the Christian-majority village of Taybeh, […]

“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know it When I see It.” – Omer Bartov on Gaza

“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know it When I see It.” – Omer Bartov on Gaza

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Lessons from a historic Act of Disarmament in Kurdistan

Lessons from a historic Act of Disarmament in Kurdistan

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Why ISIL is Targeting Tolerant Sufi Islam

Why ISIL is Targeting Tolerant Sufi Islam

By Peter Gottschalk | (The Conversation) | – – On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a […]

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Barack Obama
Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump

Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump did an interview with “Fox and Friends” for this morning in which he alleged that […]

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Iraq
ISIL: In Iraq's desert, mass grave horror beneath the dirt

ISIL: In Iraq’s desert, mass grave horror beneath the dirt

AFP | (Video News Report) | – – “The sinkhole that could be the largest mass grave in Iraq’s latest conflict is barely visible from […]

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art and photography
Image of the Day:  European Buddhists (?) & Zoroastrians, c. 1650

Image of the Day: European Buddhists (?) & Zoroastrians, c. 1650

British Museum | (Safavid Era Painting) | – – School/style: Persian School/Style term details Culture/period: Safavid dynasty term details Date: 1650-1700 (circa) Production place: Made […]

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Bill of Rights
Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?

Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?

By Joschka Fischer | (Project Syndicate) | – – BERLIN – Little more than a month after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it has become […]

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Iraq
After Mosul: Can Iraq survive without a unified National Army?

After Mosul: Can Iraq survive without a unified National Army?

By Balsam Mustafa | (The Conversation) | – – The operation to retake Iraq’s second city of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State [group] (IS) […]

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Censors
Trump Official detained, nearly Deported French Holocaust Scholar

Trump Official detained, nearly Deported French Holocaust Scholar

TeleSur | – – “My situation was nothing compared to some of the people I saw who couldn’t be defended as I was,” Rousso said […]

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African-Americans
Would Trump let Oscar Winner Mahershala Ali back into the Country?

Would Trump let Oscar Winner Mahershala Ali back into the Country?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Mahershala Ali, 43, last night won an Oscar for best supporting actor, in Moonlight . The […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Turkey's Coup aftermath and Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective

Turkey’s Coup aftermath and Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective

By Banu Gökarıksel | ( Duke University Blog ) | – – Feminist critiques of political power reveal the central function of gender, sexuality, and […]

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