Informed Comment - Part 1394

In Iran, Women’s militia Leader Demands Persecution Of Gender-Rights Activism

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Minou Aslani, head of the Women’s Basij organization in Iran, has condemned efforts to increase the […]

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Central Intelligence Agency

Those times the US meddled in other People’s Elections

TeleSur | – – U.S. concern over alleged Russian foul play in this year’s election is ironic given decades of Washington’s deadly foreign intervention. Revelations […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Amnesty International calls on Israel to drop ‘baseless’ charges against activists

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Human rights organization Amnesty International released a statement Friday demanding Israel to drop the “baseless” charges […]

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Children

2016 ‘One of worst Years in History for Children’: UNICEF

By Matthew Tempest | ( EurActiv.com ) | – – Syria: Abdulaziz (in red), 10, whose father was killed in the continuing conflict, spends time […]

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Far Right

The Reich Strikes Back? Neo-Nazis Call for a Boycott of New Star Wars Movie

By TeleSur | – – White-supremacists are upset because nearly all of the major characters on the new Star Wars film are people of color. […]

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Donald Trump

No, America, it wasn’t Russia: You did it to Yourself

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The headlines scream, “Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House” […]

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Iraq

The Fate of Iraq’s Minorities After Mosul

By Tyler Fisher and Kamal Kolo | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – The liberation of Mosul offers the international community a unique opportunity to permit […]

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Donald Trump

How We Can fight back against Trump’s Anti-EPA

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency is a […]

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Plutocracy