Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]
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Syria won’t have Peace until there is Accountability for War Crimes
By Neil Sammonds | (Inter Press Service) | – – GENEVA (IPS) – The negotiations on April 11, 2016 in Geneva and the recent reduction […]
Do you have to be Affluent to be Democratic?
By Pippa Norris | (The Conversation) | – – Africans recently went to the polls in Benin, Cape Verde, the Republic of Congo, Niger and […]
Israeli Police, going into Palestinian West Bank, Detain & Abuse Children
Human Rights Watch | – – (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children […]
How Americans Hate: 8-fold increase in Islamophobic Crime since 2000
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990, and since then the FBI has been […]
Is Cruz even Worse re: anti-Muslim Hate Speech than Trump?
By Dan Dinello | (Informed Comment) | – – With his policies of bombing, bigotry and banning, Ted Cruz-ader fuels Islamophobia at home and promotes […]
Visualization: How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)
By Kathy Gilsinan, Caitlin Cadieux, Daniel Lombroso | (The Atlantic Video Report) | – – “Americans are constantly being told that ISIS is a massive […]
It Begins: Increased flooding, accelerated sea-level rise in Miami since 2006
By The Watcher | – – A new study found that Miami Beach flood events have significantly increased over the last decade due to an acceleration […]
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program and the Displacement of Palestinian Bedouins
By IMEMC | – – Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : Lance Bartholomeusz, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank condemned Israel’s latest round of large […]
Syria: Is al-Qaeda rising as ISIL is rolled Back? Is the US de facto Allied with it?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The cessation of hostilities in Syria never included Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) or al-Qaeda (the Nusra Front […]