Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Abu Dhabi-based Erem News reports that the Prime Minister of Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli, […]
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Google Sparks Outrage by Abolishing Palestine on Maps
TeleSur | – – Google’s decision to wipe Palestine from its map app and portray the occupied territories as Israel sparks online protest campaign. Journalists […]
Looming Aleppo Battle indicts both sides of Civil War for breaking Cease-Fire
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The only thing worse than the new hero status of now-covert al-Qaeda operative Abu Muhammad al-Julani […]
On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump
TeleSur | – – Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use […]
Will Syria Issue derail Turkey-Russia Rapprochement?
By Abbas Djavadi | ( RFE/RL ) | – – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travels to St. Petersburg on August 9 to meet with […]
Iowa could go 100% Green with Wind in only 14 years, w/ Few Birds Killed, Mr. Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the highest percentage in the nation (though […]
Democrats Are Still Divided on Israel, But Clinton Runs Way to the Right
By Naomi Dann | Foreign Policy in Focus | (Originally published in Lobelog) Some see Democratic VP pick Tim Kaine as a promising counterbalance to […]
Syria: Key ISIL Smuggling city, Manbij, falls to Kurd-Arab Force
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian War is nowhere near over, but the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) episode may be drawing […]
ISIL Captures Thousands trying to flee it in Iraq, Executes a Dozen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Oman Daily’s Jabbar al-Rubaie reports that Iraqi security sources announced yesterday that Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) […]
Nagasaki, 1945: “The world did not need your experiment”
By H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – Kyoko Hayashi nearly died on August 9, 1945 in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. She […]
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