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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
Donald Trump

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Mosul: ISIL Scorched Earth Tactics put Civilians in Crossfire

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

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

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

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

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?

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
A distracted Trump administration Couldn't even focus  on its own anti-ISIL summit.

A distracted Trump administration Couldn’t even focus on its own anti-ISIL summit.

By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Donald Trump’s election campaign made much of his predecessor Barack Obama’s failure to control and […]

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Environment
Trump's Coal Plants, Auto Emissions are causing our Alzheimer's Epidemic

Trump’s Coal Plants, Auto Emissions are causing our Alzheimer’s Epidemic

By Jiu-Chiuan Chen | (The Conversation) | – – Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain disease that eventually strips sufferers of their ability to remember, […]

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It's Class Warfare, Stupid.  The GOP crusade against Health Care

It’s Class Warfare, Stupid. The GOP crusade against Health Care

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The struggle over health care in the United States is a form of class warfare, complicated […]

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