Informed Comment - Part 1509

Is the Clinton Campaign Borrowing Bernie Sanders’ Issues, Rhetoric?

By Bianca Perez | ( TeleSur Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont has stuck to his ideals throughout his campaign and has been criticized by […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Occupation forces from Israel disperse protests in Palestinian West Bank

Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Scores of demonstrators suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces dispersed weekly protests in […]

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GOP debate Civil? Candidates urged torture, child-murder, backing bloody Dictatorships

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The headlines Friday about the GOP debate in Miami stressed how relatively civil it was, with […]

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Bill of Rights

The FBI’s outrageous assault on the 1st Amendment and Apple

By Andrew Crocker | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) | – – Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the […]

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Turkey

Turkey’s Gender Stereotyping made a Mockery of Women’s Day

By Ece Basay | ( Globalvoices.org ) | – – March 8 is marked as International Women’s Day in Turkey, and is typified as elsewhere […]

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Israel/ Palestine

Giant British security firm G4S to end Israeli business after BDS pressure

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — British security giant G4S announced Wednesday plans to sell its Israeli businesses in the next 12 […]

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journalism

America’s Groundhog Day in Afghanistan and Iraq: The Headlines just Recycle

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – With General John Campbell’s tour of duty in Afghanistan finished, a new commander has taken over. Admittedly, […]

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Top 6 Signs Trump is wrong & Islam doesn’t ‘Hate us’

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Republican presidential candidate and billionaire bigot Donald J. Trump said in a CNN interview on Wednesday […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula