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

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 […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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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Can Obama's CO2 reductions set pace at Paris world Climate Congress?

Can Obama’s CO2 reductions set pace at Paris world Climate Congress?

By Nora Happel | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – This week, U.S. President Barack Obama formally unveiled the details of […]

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Archaeology
Water Wars from the Pharaohs to the West Bank in 2 mins. via Lego Animation

Water Wars from the Pharaohs to the West Bank in 2 mins. via Lego Animation

AJ+ | (Video report) | – – We wanted to tell the story of water wars throughout history. We also wanted to play with Legos. […]

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Bill of Rights
Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate

Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Well we had the primetime GOP debate, so the 2016 election season has formally begun. Trump […]

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Barack Obama
Iran Deal: Can Schumer still succeed Reid after taking Netanyahu's side against his Party Leader?

Iran Deal: Can Schumer still succeed Reid after taking Netanyahu’s side against his Party Leader?

Wochit News | (Video report) | – – “New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, is breaking with President Barack Obama and […]

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Immigration
Losing Hope, Iraqi Youth become Illegal Immigrants to ‘Save Themselves’

Losing Hope, Iraqi Youth become Illegal Immigrants to ‘Save Themselves’

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Previously it was the unemployed or those threatened who tried to leave Iraq for good. But […]

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Christianity
Leader of extremist Israeli organization calls for torching churches

Leader of extremist Israeli organization calls for torching churches

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) –The leader of a Jewish extremist group in Israel allegedly called for arson attacks on churches in […]

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Entertainment
In Honor of Jon Stewart’s Finale, that time he showed a Juan Cole clip re: al-Qaeda

In Honor of Jon Stewart’s Finale, that time he showed a Juan Cole clip re: al-Qaeda

By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | – – Jon Stewart is the most brilliant man on television, and Steve Colbert said it well, that […]

Juan Cole

Japan
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?

by Akil Awan | (The New Statesman) – – Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of […]

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Barack Obama
Obama: Opponents of Iran Deal are Warmongers

Obama: Opponents of Iran Deal are Warmongers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lame duck Obama pulls no punches. In his major address Wednesday on the Vienna deal reached […]

Juan Cole

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