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Can Big Coal, Oil be Put on Trial for Global Warming Damage by Victims?
By Thalif Deen | – – UNITED NATIONS, Jun 16 2015 (IPS) – The United Nations, which is tasked with the protection of the global […]
Juan Cole & Jocylene Cesari: “Europe’s Muslims after Charlie Hebdo: Challenges and Misconceptions”
David Speedie, Juan Cole & Jocylene Cesari | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (Video) | – – “Months after the “Charlie Hebdo” attacks, […]
Can the GOP live down Donald Trump’s Middle East “Policy”?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Comedians, bloggers, and pundits are ecstatic about The Donald throwing his toupee in the ring for […]
Climate Denial as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy
By Naomi Oreskes | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill […]
Israel’s Ultranationalist Squatters March in Jerusalem, beat Palestinian Journalist
Channel 4 News | (Video Documentary) | – – “Bussed in from nearby settlements, Israel’s ultranationalist right were defiant at a rally for Jerusalem day […]
Europe to reach 20% Renewable Energy Goal by 2020 & You’ll Never Guess How
Euractiv | – – [ N.B. 13% of US electricity is from renewables, including hydro; almost no transportation is powered by renewables.] While most EU […]
Women’s Voices Matter, especially in the Middle East
By Lauren Feeney | (Informed Comment) – – Before there were nine million Syrian refugees, civil wars in Yemen and Libya, mass death sentences being […]
The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis “Jeb” Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Jeb Bush announced his run for president on Monday. It is hard to know what his […]
Flash Fiction: “The Office”
N.B. Fiction with mature themes. By Juan Cole | The Office Adib was winning at cards again. Bashir was already out, sitting […]
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