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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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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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Why the UN branded Israel an Apartheid state

Why the UN branded Israel an Apartheid state

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Note: Apparently the Trump administration at Israeli urging threatened to defund the UN if this report […]

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Populist Wilders may have come up short, but Dutch intolerance is still real

Populist Wilders may have come up short, but Dutch intolerance is still real

By Annemarie Toebosch | (The Conversation) | – – The Dutch elections on March 15 have received a lot of attention in the international media. […]

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Authoritarianism
I Am an Enemy of the People (Feffer)

I Am an Enemy of the People (Feffer)

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – If Trump cracks down on journalists, there might be less uproar than […]

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Hawaii Judge:  Trump's Muslim Ban 2.0 still Violates the Constitution

Hawaii Judge: Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 still Violates the Constitution

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Derrick Watson, US District Court judge in Honolulu, has issued a nationwide Temporary Restraining Order against […]

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Hizbullah
Israeli Pol threatens Crimes against Humanity in Lebanon

Israeli Pol threatens Crimes against Humanity in Lebanon

TeleSur | – – A far-right Israeli minister said Lebanese civilians must be direct targets in a future war over Hezbollah’s rising political sway in […]

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Islam-hatred
Islamophobia barring young Western Muslims from Ordinary Politics

Islamophobia barring young Western Muslims from Ordinary Politics

By Peter Hopkins and Robin Finlay | (The Conversation) | – – Muslim youths tend to be portrayed as politically disengaged or potentially extremist. Debates […]

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Islamophobia
Exit Polls: Tolerant Dutch Reject Wilders' anti-Muslim Hate Speech

Exit Polls: Tolerant Dutch Reject Wilders’ anti-Muslim Hate Speech

TeleSur | Many see the Dutch vote as a referendum on the viability of the viciously anti-Muslim, anti-migrant politics represented by Geert Wilders. Dutch Prime […]

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Climate Change
Trump & Saudi Arabia:  Oil Boycott or Bromance?

Trump & Saudi Arabia: Oil Boycott or Bromance?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is meeting this week with Muhammad bin Salman, the deputy heir apparent of the Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
Trump bankrupting us w/ Pentagon Budget suited to 1943

Trump bankrupting us w/ Pentagon Budget suited to 1943

By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – If you are an American male of a certain age — Donald Trump’s age, to be […]

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