Informed Comment - Part 1376

Trump’s Steve Bannon: Abusive, White Nationalist Media Baron

TeleSur | – – “You have an individual … who’s basically creating the ideological aspects of where we’re going,” said former imperial wizard, David Duke […]

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History

What Everyone Should Know about the Prophet Muhammad

Steve Scholl | (Spirituality and Health Magazine) | – – Muhammad has become a strangely unifying figure in America—able to get conservative Glenn Beck and […]

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Displaced and Refugees

Dear Mayor Giuliani: We can’t turn our backs on Syrian Refugees

Akil Awan | (Informed Comment) | – – I recently visited Jordan as part of my work on political violence and youth radicalisation for the […]

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Donald Trump

Will Trump do a deal with Iran or try to Overthrow its Government?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – For all his bluster about renegotiating the Joint Plan for Collective Action regarding Iran’s nuclear enrichment […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump

Will Trump really be Isolationist? Or will he March us to War?

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – “So is he going to win?” The question washed over me as I slumped in my hard […]

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Islam-hatred

FBI Confirms Rampant Islamophobia: Hate Crimes Surged by 67%

TeleSur | – – While anti-Muslims crimes shot up, Jews still remain the most frequent target of religious-based hate crimes in the U.S. From last […]

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Donald Trump

A Jerusalem Litmus Test

By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | – – A quick and early litmus test of Trump’s “pragmatism”: Will he move the U.S. embassy […]

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Far Right

Neofascist Trump Appointee Bannon: “Anger is a Good thing” “if you’re Fighting to Take this Country Back”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump named Neofascist Stephen Bannon as his White House strategist, a co-equal with incoming White […]

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Arab World