Informed Comment - Part 1506

Billionaire buying Election & Given Free Airtime sulks that System is Rigged

CBSN | (Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is slamming the Republican party after losing more delegates to Ted Cruz in Colorado this weekend. […]

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Bill of Rights

The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur ARRESTED At Democracy Spring Protest In Washington D.C.

Ben Mankiewicz, Ana Kasparian, and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “The Democracy Spring rally was held today in Washington, D.C. […]

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Human Rights

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 […]

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Democracy

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 […]

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Israel/ Palestine

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 […]

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Featured

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 […]

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Islam-hatred

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 […]

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Iraq

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 […]

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Climate Change