San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]
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After Paris, it’s good detective work that will keep us safe, not mass surveillance
By Pete Fussey | (The Conversation) | – – Before the dust has even settled from the attacks on Paris, familiar calls for greater surveillance […]
Can European Union, Russia & US team up to defeat ISIL?
By Georgi Gotev & Aline Robert | (EurActiv.com) | – – Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has teamed up with French President François Hollande in seeking […]
Why the National Security State Relishes our being Trolled by Muslim Radicals
By Tom Engelhardt | Tomdispatch.com) | – – Honestly, I don’t know whether to rant or weep, neither of which are usual impulses for me. […]
Did Daesh/ ISIL’s Paris attacks bolster al-Assad? Spain calls him ‘lesser of evils’
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Spanish foreign minister José Manuel García Margallo said Wednesday in the course of a television interview: […]
Sowing fear of Refugees is playing into ISIL’s Hands: HRW
Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – Governments should not allow the recent attacks in Paris and similar mass casualty attacks elsewhere to […]
Obama: GOP afraid of little Syrian Girls; Cruz: ‘You want a piece of me?’
John Iadarola and Elliot Hill | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “President Obama is speaking out against Republican politicians and members of the […]
Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu for War Crimes in Spain, South Africa
IMEMC | – – South Africa issued, on Tuesday, an arrest warrant against four Israeli officials over their role in deadly attacks on pro-Palestinian international […]
Grand Alliance against ISIL: Can Putin come in from the Cold?
By Brian Whitmore | ( RFE/RL ) | – – He wasn’t ostracized. He wasn’t isolated. And certainly nobody threatened to shirtfront him. In the […]
A New Yalta? Can France Craft an alliance of Putin & Obama against Daesh/ISIL?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – French President Francois Hollande is seeking a new relationship with Russia after the attacks on Paris […]
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