Informed Comment - Part 1422

Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories

By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | – – The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm […]

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Syria: Russia warns of Mideast Apocalypse if US attacks al-Assad’s military

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – ABC News reports that Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that a U.S. attack on the […]

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Green Transportation

Backfire: Did Volkswagen’s Dieselgate ensure victory of Electric Cars?

By EurActiv.com | – – The ‘Dieselgate’ scandal will mark an important step towards phasing out the hundred-year-old internal combustion engine which doesn’t have a […]

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Bill of Rights

Nixonian Donald Trump threatens writers who dare Criticize him

By Richard Tofel | ProPublica | – – In 1733, New York printer John Peter Zenger began publishing the eighth newspaper in the American colonies, […]

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Humor

President Trump’s Extreme Vetting of Immigrants (Satire Skit)

Maz Jobrani | (Video skit) | – – “Donald Trump has said that if he wins he will do EXTREME VETTING of all immigrants. He […]

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Syria Quagmire: Has Russia Accomplished anything in a year of Bombing?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Alarabiya says that Russia has killed over 3,000 civilians in its bombing raids of the past […]

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Human Rights

Iran releases Canadian Academic it accused of ‘Feminism,’ but Crackdown on Women Activists Continues

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Globalvoices.org) | – – Some good news reached Canada this week when Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian anthropologist, was released after […]

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Corruption

‘Smoking Gun’ Shows GOP-Oil Industry Climate Denial Collusion

By TeleSur | – – Republican attorneys general are accused of helping shield ExxonMobil over climate change fabrications. Environmental groups have called allegations of Republican […]

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