When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]
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What Islamophobia and ISIL/ Daesh have in Common: The Political Use of Fear
By Ian Buruma | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – There are many roads to political disaster: greed, hubris, the charisma of the […]
After the COP21 Paris Climate Accord, what we need is an Int’l Climate Court
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The climate pact forged at Paris lacks real teeth and so in and of itself will […]
Daesh in the Digital Realm
By Michael Degerald | (History x ISIS) | – – In popular discussion of the Islamic State, several topics have received the vast majority of […]
Should an al-Qaeda Ally have a seat at the Syrian Table? Al-Assad rejects talks w/ any armed Group
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Riyadh conference of the Syrian opposition this week included political groups but also nine armed […]
Deepening Inequality Driving US Middle Class into Oblivion
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “The hollowing of the middle has proceeded steadily for four decades, and it may have […]
Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here’s What’s going to happen to you and your children
By Katja Frieler | (The Conversation) | – – At the Paris climate summit, delegates are deciding on a global goal for temperature rise. At […]
Top 10 Signs the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised Those ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly “corrupt” always imply […]
How U.S. Interventions Dismembered the Middle East
By Adil E. Shamoo | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Despite everything, hawks are still pushing President Obama to send ground troops to […]
Russo-Turkish Conflict over Syria & Iraq Boils: “Manifestations of impotent Rage”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Turkish and Russian government have continued their war of words that followed on the shooting […]
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