Informed Comment - Part 1430

Trump’s Behavior like Male Chimp Dominance Ritual: Jane Goodall

TeleSur | – – Chimpanzees throw rocks and cans at their rivals as “dominance rituals,” Goodall said, which in many ways reminds her of Donald […]

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Corruption

George Clooney Report Ruffles Feathers in South Sudan

TeleSur | – – The report “can only jeopardize the pursuit of peace and stability,” South Sudan representatives said. A new report claiming that South […]

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Featured

In Massive Intel Error, US Kills 80 Syrian Troops, Helps ISIL Advance

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a massive intelligence failure, the US Air Force hit a Syrian military installation in Deir […]

Juan Cole

Featured

The Green Current: A Superhero

By Juan Cole | Informed Comment | (Graphic Novel) | – – Ali Saleh was an ordinary American teenager at Dearborn High. His father, Dr. […]

Juan Cole

Featured

“Pigs! Crusaders!”: US-Backed Fundamentalist Militias drive US Commandos out of al-Ray, Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As Raf Sanchez of The Telegraph writes, fundamentalist militiamen of the US-backed Free Syrian Army chased […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change

Is the Native American pipeline resistance in N. Dakota about climate justice?

By Kyle Powys Whyte | (The Conversation) | – – Over the past months, hundreds of indigenous persons and their allies have gathered near the […]

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Guns

Trump: Disarm Sec. Clinton’s bodyguards: & “let’s see what happens to her.”

CNN | (Video News Report) | – – “During a Miami rally, Donald Trump wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret […]

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Arms Sales

Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Must End, Says UK Parliament Report

TeleSur | – – Two parliamentary committees said it was likely Saudi Arabia used U.K. weapons to target civilians, but Tory lawmakers blocked a vote […]

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Authoritarianism