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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

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Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Barack Obama
Momentum growing for Iran Deal: Obama Wins Over Jewish Democrat Nadler

Momentum growing for Iran Deal: Obama Wins Over Jewish Democrat Nadler

Wochit News | (video News Report) | – – “President Barack Obama seeking to reassure a Democratic congressman who represents the most Jewish district in […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria: Impose Arms Embargo on Regime Following Deadly Airstrikes

Syria: Impose Arms Embargo on Regime Following Deadly Airstrikes

Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – The United Nations Security Council should impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government following the […]

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Democracy
Iran Pres. Rouhani criticizes Hardliners, is slapped down by Revolutionary Guards

Iran Pres. Rouhani criticizes Hardliners, is slapped down by Revolutionary Guards

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Iran’s Guardians Council, long accused of being a tool for hard-liners in factional power struggles, is […]

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Climate Change
Global Warming: Humans made California drought 15-20% worse by Burning Coal, Gas, Oil

Global Warming: Humans made California drought 15-20% worse by Burning Coal, Gas, Oil

By Park Williams | (The Conversation) | – – With each passing year, human-caused global warming bullies California for more water. Each year, the heat […]

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Authoritarianism
Crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan:  Attacked by ISIL & Turkey; and Now Leaderless

Crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan: Attacked by ISIL & Turkey; and Now Leaderless

Honar Hama Rasheed | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | – – As the issue of Iraqi Kurdistan’s vacant presidency heats up, delegations from the US, Turkey […]

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Authoritarianism
Huge ISIL Blast at Cairo Security Bldg. Injures 29;  Sisi Security Claims in Tatters

Huge ISIL Blast at Cairo Security Bldg. Injures 29; Sisi Security Claims in Tatters

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – An enormous explosion damaged a building housing secret police in a northern district of Cairo (Shubra […]

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BDS Occupied Territories
Israel and the BDS debate: two scholars respectfully agree to differ

Israel and the BDS debate: two scholars respectfully agree to differ

By Ingrid Matthews and James Arvanitakis | (The Conversation) | – – From Australia, we watch Israel at a great distance, safe in the knowledge […]

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Foreign Policy
"The Iranian Threat":  Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?

“The Iranian Threat”: Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?

By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna […]

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Trump Takes on the World

Trump Takes on the World

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – It was 1972. The flamboyant rock star Alice Cooper, not quite a household name […]

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