Informed Comment - Part 1367

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 […]

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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 […]

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Israel/ Palestine

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 […]

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China

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 […]

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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 […]

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Bashar al-Assad

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 […]

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