Informed Comment - Part 1571

Activists strip against Israeli separation wall in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Several foreign activists stripped bare near the Israeli separation wall in the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank in refusal […]

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Featured

Pope Francis Endorses Iran Deal: Another Dilemma for GOP Catholic Candidates

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Republican presidential candidates are virtually unanimous that human-caused climate change is a hoax and burning […]

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Arab Americans

Islam Hysteria: 14 yr old Muslim Student Invents Digital Clock, is Arrested

The Dallas Morning News | (Video Interview with Ahmad Mohamed) | – – “Ahmed Mohamed, 14, an Irving MacArthur High student who invents as a […]

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Displaced and Refugees

Favoring Christian over Muslim refugees is bad for everyone

By Sarah Hackett | (The Conversation) | – – The unfolding refugee crisis has been marked by stories of displacement, violence and despair. There have […]

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Barack Obama

Obama as Grandmaster of Grand Strategy: Containing China

By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President Barack Obama is deploying a subtle […]

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Islam

Ashrawi: “Israel is provoking a global holy war” over Aqsa

By IMEMC News | – – PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi met with [British Consul General to Jerusalem] Dr. Alastair McPhail at the […]

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Egypt

Mexican Tour Organizers, Buddhist Healers, Baffled by Egyptian Army Attack

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Gabriela Bejarano Rangel, the sister and daughter of the Mexican organizers of the tour to Egypt […]

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Culture

Andrew Garfield of Spiderman: Trump ‘has a lot,’ Unwelcoming of those with Little

Popsugar Entertainment | (Video Interview with Andrew Garfield) | – – “Andrew Garfield spent hours with families who’d lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis […]

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Jewish History