Informed Comment - Part 1631

Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump

By Juan Cole – (Informed Comment) – It is said that one of the things President Obama wanted to talk to comedian Jon Stewart about […]

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Counter-Terrorism

Turkey’s AKP strikes back: the Politics of attacking both KurdS & ISIL

By Tristan Dunning – (The Conversation) – – Tristan Dunning, The University of Queensland Stemming from a presumed Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing killing 32 […]

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Domestic Terrorism

America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State

By Karen J. Greenberg – Tomdispatch.com Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip — or more likely, pick up information through […]

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Iraq

It’s Dictatorship & Sectarianism, Stupid! – Rethinking the war on Daesh/ ISIL

By: Ramzy Baroud – (Ma’an News Agency) – – As much of the Middle East sinks deeper into division between competing political camps, the so-called […]

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Featured

Another Bush Legacy in Iraq: Barzani asks PKK to Leave

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Sunday morning, Kurdish separatist guerrillas launched a suicide-bombing strike on Turkish forces in Angri province, […]

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Climate Change

World already halfway to Climate Point of No Return

The Tree | – – The world may already have warmed more than halfway to the limit governments have agreed to contain warming to, according […]

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Iran

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