Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Fariba Amini writes: Omer Bartov recently wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times in which […]
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Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic Party has been the Establishment for eight years, and the Clintons have arguably been […]
Election Westworld? Bots were 20% of your Twitter News Feed
By Emilio Ferrara | (The Conversation) | – – Key to democracy is public engagement – when people discuss the issues of the day with […]
European journalists brand Turkey ‘biggest prison in the world’
By Herbert Vytiska | EurActiv.de | Translated By Samuel Morgan | EurActiv | – – Curbs on press freedom have been dramatically increased since the […]
Dear Ann Coulter: Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many of the anxieties that have roiled this year’s election have had an underlying theme, of […]
Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?
By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON (IPS) – Many US citizens may instinctively believe they still live in the land […]
W. Bank Palestinian farmers: Israeli squatters stole harvest of 400 olive trees
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Palestinian farmers in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus reported on Monday that Israeli settlers stole the harvest of 400 […]
Iraq’s Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields
Human Rights Watch | – – All Forces Should Take Necessary Precautions to Protect Civilians (Erbil) – In areas around Mosul, the Islamic State, also […]
Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What is unusual about the FBI’s intervention in the 2016 election is not the intervention. The […]
Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There
Special Correspondent | Baghdad | Niqash.org | – – NIQASH’s Mosul correspondent explains why people in the city did not resist the [so-called] Islamic State […]