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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Climate Change
Will Climate change make the Middle East  Uninhabitable?

Will Climate change make the Middle East Uninhabitable?

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – CAIRO (IPS) – This is not about any alarming header—it is the dramatic conclusion of […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Who are the Syrian Refugees, really, and where are they?  Hint:  Mainly women and children, & not in the West

Who are the Syrian Refugees, really, and where are they? Hint: Mainly women and children, & not in the West

By Jeffrey H. Cohen | (The Conversation) | – – Editor’s note: This article is part of our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program […]

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Barack Obama
6 Policies Obama wants Saudi Arabia to Change

6 Policies Obama wants Saudi Arabia to Change

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – After his critical comments in an interview in The Atlantic last month, Barack Obama’s visit to […]

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Top 7 Reasons Israel must give back the Occupied Golan to Syria

Top 7 Reasons Israel must give back the Occupied Golan to Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The far right wing regime of Binyamin Netanyahu pulled the stunt of holding its first cabinet […]

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Education
Anti-Muslim Bigotry @ Idaho State to cost Pocatello $400 mn./ yr

Anti-Muslim Bigotry @ Idaho State to cost Pocatello $400 mn./ yr

Jay Hidlebrandt, Karole Honas, Misty Inglet | – KIFI Local News 8 | – – “The Idaho U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson held a press conference […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel has Kidnapped ("Detained") a million Palestinians since 1967: Occupation as Imprisonment

Israel has Kidnapped (“Detained”) a million Palestinians since 1967: Occupation as Imprisonment

By Saed Bannoura | (IMEMC) | – – The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) have reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped […]

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Petroleum
Gas Prices to stay Low?  Saudi-Iran Tensions Block Oil Output Freeze

Gas Prices to stay Low? Saudi-Iran Tensions Block Oil Output Freeze

TeleSur | – – Oil producing countries meeting in Doha failed to reach an agreement to freeze output. They may meet again in June. OPEC […]

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journalism
Then they took the "Info" out of Infotainment; Corporate 'News' Cashes in on Fascism

Then they took the “Info” out of Infotainment; Corporate ‘News’ Cashes in on Fascism

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Think of the 2016 presidential campaign as the political equivalent of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of […]

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Egypt
What's behind Egyptian Protests over Islands given to Saudi Arabia?

What’s behind Egyptian Protests over Islands given to Saudi Arabia?

By Ebrahim Shabbir Deen | (Informed Comment) | – – The recent return of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia by the […]

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