Informed Comment - Part 1602

Top Signs Pope Francis is an Honest Conservative

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The positioning of Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis, as a “liberal” or “progressive” in American politics is […]

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Nuclear weapons

Making money off Nuclear Apocalypse while obsessing about Non-Nuclear Iran

By Richard Krushnic & Jonathan Alan King | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Imagine for a moment a genuine absurdity: somewhere in the United States, the […]

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Christians

Why the Pope and America won’t leave each Other Unchanged

By Massimo Faggioli | (The Conversation) | – – The papal trip to the United States that Francis will begin on September 22 is the […]

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Russia

Could Daesh/ ISIS bring Russia and the west together?

By Marta Ter | (Open Democracy) | – – For a couple of years after 9/11, there was a solid US-Russia anti-terrorism cooperation that basically […]

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Displaced and Refugees

Syrians welcomed Armenian, Iraqi, other Refugees but now Unwelcome as Refugees

AJ+ | – – “The world hasn’t been very hospitable to refugees from Syria – a country with a long history of taking in people […]

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Eastern Europe

As Russia supports Iran in Syria, Netanyahu Loses Again

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, accompanied by Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot […]

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Elections

Dark Money Surge: Conservatives Buoyed by Historic Flood of Contributions

By Sarah Lazare, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) – – A new report from Center for Responsive Politics finds single-candidate groups have spent $16.2 million […]

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Islam