Informed Comment - Part 1629

Can the Iran Deal be defeated by Rhetoric likening it to the Holocaust?

by SHALOM GOLDMAN for ISLAMiCommentary Opinion polls and election results indicate that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s rhetoric — which compares the Islamic republic of Iran […]

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Climate Change

Does Climate Change spell the end of glass-box Skyscrapers?

By David Coley | (The Conversation) | – – How do we go about designing buildings today for tomorrow’s weather? As the world warms and […]

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Israel

Thousands mourn as Israeli attacks in Palestinian West Bank mount

By Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday attended the funeral of Laith al-Khaldi, 17, who was killed […]

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Energy

Thousands Protest in Baghdad against Lack of Electricity, Services & demand end of Corruption

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It seems extraordinary, but in a country where Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has advanced to within an […]

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Campaign Finance

Jimmy Carter: US “Now is just an Oligarchy . . . Subversion of our System”

Thom Hartmann | (Video Interview) | – – “Thom Hartmann talks with President Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977 to 1981) / […]

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Barack Obama

Ted Cruz: “Obama Is Funding Terrorists via Iran Deal!” (Forgets Reagan, Cheney)

Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks) | – – “Mitt Romney may be the only major Republican not running for […]

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Iraq

After ISIL? Shiite Militias begin Entering Iraqi Politics

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Once they were focused on fighting extremists. Now Iraq’s controversial volunteer Shiite militias seem to […]

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Israel

Autopsy confirms Palestinian infant was ‘burned alive’ by Israeli Squatters

Ma`an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Justice Ministry autopsy confirmed that the 18-month-old Palestinian who was killed in an arson […]

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al-Qaeda