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Syria unlikely to be Partitioned: The Resilience of Colonial Borders
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whenever a country falls into civil war, there are always observers who suggest that the problem […]
Hating on “Foreigners” a key Plank of Trumpism: Can it be Fought?
By Ngaire Woods | (Project Syndication) | – – The New Xenophobia: OXFORD – Democratic governments in the West are increasingly losing their bearings. From […]
How Israel’s Blockade of Gaza Is Killing Women with Breast Cancer
TeleSur | – – Since Israel began its siege of Gaza in 2007, hundreds of people have died needlessly, various reports state. Hundreds of Palestinian […]
How China will run rings around Trump on Green Energy, and Win Big
By Matthew Kahn | (The Conversation) | – – In mid-November, while Americans were preoccupied with election returns, China sent some of its clearest signals […]
More districts of East Aleppo fall to Regime & Militia Allies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Both regime sources and the Britain-based Syria Observatory said Tuesday that the Syrian Arab Army and […]
Russia/Syria: War Crimes in Month of Bombing Aleppo
Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September […]
After Nov. 8: Countdown to Doomsday
By John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – I didn’t vote in the pivotal American election of 2016. Thirty-five years ago, in that unseasonably warm […]
White Terrorism in the White House? Did Trump’s Bannon, Breitbart inspire Pizzeria Shooter?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Imagine if they had been Muslims. What if a Muslim publication pushed a false conspiracy theory […]
Did Trump’s Son-In-Law Finance Israeli Extremists and Illegal Settlements?
TeleSur | – – Trump has said that Kushner, who is a married to Ivanka Trump and is an Orthodox Jew, would be “very good” […]