Informed Comment - Part 1576

Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 1,991 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces and extremists since 2000, according […]

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Dissent

A Guru for Our Time: Eqbal Ahmad and the life of Dissent from Empire

By Stuart Schaar | (Informed Comment) | – – In the early 1960s I was living in Rabat while researching my doctoral dissertation for Princeton […]

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Displaced and Refugees

Refugees from the Phony Caliphate: Iraqis hire People Smugglers to escape Mosul

Special Correspondent | (Niqash.org) | – – Hassan Hafouzi* and his family paid people smugglers so they could leave Mosul, the city controlled by the […]

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Featured

How GOP Candidates would Deal with Syria, Short Version

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Political Satire In the course of the second GOP debate at CNN, anchor Jake Tapper asked […]

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Syria

America can — and should — Do More for Syrian Refugees

By Chris Toensing | (Otherwords.org) | – – Imagine that 58 million Americans were streaming into Canada and Mexico, many with only a small satchel […]

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Iran

Rouhani: forget Geopolitics: Iran’s real Enemies are Water & jobs Shortages & Drugs

By RFE/RL | – – – Iran’s President Hassan Rohani has warned that water shortages, unemployment, inflation, and problems like drug addiction are threatening the […]

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Apartheid

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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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