Informed Comment - Part 1406

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 […]

Democratic Party

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), […]

African-Americans

Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – ‘Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken […]

Authoritarianism

Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility

By Mehmet Ugur | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Let us stop pretending otherwise: Turkey is now under a dictatorial regime established step by step […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians

By Aimee Shalan | al-Shabakah | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Current British Complicity It is not only corporate entities such as G4S in […]

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