A revised version of an essay from a long time ago. It didn’t need much revision. Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack […]
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This Year Thanksgiving overlaps Paris Climate Summit: Let’s be Thankful we can Do Something
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — Reprint edn. The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember […]
Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane? The Proxy War in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Turkish government decision to down a Russian jet operating in the north of the Syrian […]
Can France forge a grand alliance against ISIL that includes Putin & Obama?
Shelby Holliday | (WSJ Video Report) | – – “In the wake of the Paris attacks, French President Francois Hollande is traveling to Washington and […]
Kabul on the Potomac: How America became the most Corrupt Society in the West
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – A top government official with energy industry holdings huddles in secret with oil company executives to […]
Putin, Furious, calls Turkey ‘accomplices of terrorists’ after Russian jet downing
EurActiv.com | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet today (24 November) a stab in the back administered […]
Americans’ views of Islam depend on whether they’re at war overseas
The Bridge Initiative | – – Washington, DC The Bridge Initiative, a Georgetown University research project on Islamophobia, releases today its inaugural report which traces […]
Saudi Arabia: Poet Sentenced to Death for Apostasy
Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – A Saudi court sentenced a Palestinian man to death for apostasy on November 17, 2015, for alleged […]
From Putin To Khamenei: A Koran Copy With Its Own History
By RFE/RL | – – It may not be the original version of the first . . . edition of the Koran, dating back 1,500 […]
Muslims are integrated in France, but the bad guys want a clash of civilizations.
By Sebastian Rotella | ( ProPublica PARIS — Ten days after the Paris terror attacks, Europe remains on edge. Police in Belgium, anticipating a similar […]
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