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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 […]
Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture
By Lili Fuhr | ( Project Syndicate ) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in […]
Growing Global Nuclear Threat – as if Election 2016 weren’t already bad enough
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was […]
The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn’t much chance he can win), […]
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