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On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump
TeleSur | – – Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use […]
Will Syria Issue derail Turkey-Russia Rapprochement?
By Abbas Djavadi | ( RFE/RL ) | – – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travels to St. Petersburg on August 9 to meet with […]
Iowa could go 100% Green with Wind in only 14 years, w/ Few Birds Killed, Mr. Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the highest percentage in the nation (though […]
Democrats Are Still Divided on Israel, But Clinton Runs Way to the Right
By Naomi Dann | Foreign Policy in Focus | (Originally published in Lobelog) Some see Democratic VP pick Tim Kaine as a promising counterbalance to […]
Syria: Key ISIL Smuggling city, Manbij, falls to Kurd-Arab Force
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian War is nowhere near over, but the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) episode may be drawing […]
ISIL Captures Thousands trying to flee it in Iraq, Executes a Dozen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Oman Daily’s Jabbar al-Rubaie reports that Iraqi security sources announced yesterday that Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) […]
Nagasaki, 1945: “The world did not need your experiment”
By H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – Kyoko Hayashi nearly died on August 9, 1945 in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. She […]
Obama not only did not pay Iran Ransom, he denied Iran Billions it had Coming to It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Zack Beauchamp at Vox has a very clear explanation of why the $400 million the US […]
The Decay of American Politics: Pseudo-Election 2016
By Andrew J. Bacevich | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – My earliest recollection of national politics dates back exactly 60 years to the moment, in the […]
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