Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]
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The Iranian Connection in the Age of Trump
By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – Stack up the op-eds and essays on the disasters that await the world once Donald Trump […]
Trump does Poor imitation of Tin-Pot Dictator at “Press Conference”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In his first news conference in months, president-elect Donald J. Trump engaged in a series of […]
US Iraq-Afghanistan ‘Burn Pits’ – Poisoning America’s Soldiers
Reviewed by H. Patricia Hynes | (Truthdig) | – – “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” A book by Joseph Hickman They are […]
If Trump moves US Embassy to Jerusalem, all Hell will Break Loose
By Phyllis Bennis | (Institute for Policy Studies) | – – If the U.S. goes ahead with the GOP plan, says Phyllis Bennis, “all bets […]
Last Year the US Dropped 26,171 Bombs on 7 Muslim-Majority Countries
TeleSur | – – The countries include Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. In the waning days of the Obama administration, new research […]
Climate Activists fear Tillerson, Call him Out for Lying About Warming During Hearing
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – ‘Listening to his hearing, it would be easier to conclude Tillerson is under […]
Informed Comment Fundraiser Success- with Profound thanks
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many, many thanks to everyone who contributed during the annual IC Fundraiser! I’m bowled over by […]
For Russian hold on Trump, follow the Money, not the Sex tapes
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Buzzfeed has published the unverified allegations by a former MI6 analyst with good Russian contacts, contained […]
A Living Wage & a Right to Live: Resisting a government of Generals and Billionaires
San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Many of the folks I know are getting ready to play serious defense in 2017, and they’re not wrong. […]