Informed Comment - Part 1388

If he wins: The Coming Trump Market Crash and Great Recession

By Simon Johnson | (Project Syndicate) | – – WASHINGTON, DC – With the United States’ presidential election on November 8, and a series of […]

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Featured

Hizbullah’s Candidate becomes Lebanese President after Sunni Compromise

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lebanon finally has a president, Michel Aoun. In accordance with the country’s national pact, he is […]

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Iraq

Sectarian Tensions flare in Baghdad as some Sunni Arab families forced from Neighborhoods

By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Several Sunni Muslim families were forced out of their mainly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood in Baghdad […]

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Green Transportation

Sell that Oil Stock! Electric Cars are Here

The Tree | – – As fossil fuels fight loud and clumsy battles for continued dominance in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia, […]

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Republican Party

Why a Trump-appointed Supreme Court would mean Workers are Screwed

By Michele Gilman | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump touts that as president he would be good for American workers. Although many of […]

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Democratic Party

Emails and Groping: Our Halloween Election keeps Scaring us to Death

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – All Hallow’s Eve, contracted now to Halloween, became conflated with the Scottish and Irish pagan Samhain, […]

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Islam