Informed Comment - Part 1640

Why Boycotting Israel will Backfire, just as Netanyahu’s Blockade of Gaza Has

By Guy Laron | (Informed Comment) | – – Many people who support a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict believe that the Boycott, Divestment […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

As Kobane comes under ISIL attack, Kurds Encircle, cut off “caliphate”

By Amy Austin Holmes | (Informed Comment) | – – (Kobane, Syria) The liberation of Kobane in late January led to jubilant celebrations almost everywhere. […]

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censorship

Journalists Pay the Price in Egypt’s Crackdown on Dissent

By Kitty Stapp | – – NEW YORK (IPS) – The Egyptian government is holding a record number of journalists in jail, a press freedom […]

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Barack Obama

Top Five ways for Washington to Fail in Iraq

By Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In one form or another, the U.S. has been at war with Iraq since 1990, including […]

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Constitution

America’s Homegrown Extremists Twice as Deadly as Muslim Radicals

AJ+ | (Video report) | – “Homegrown groups with no connection to Islam have killed almost twice as many people as Muslim groups, according to […]

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Climate Change

Humans Causing the Sixth Great Extinction of other Life Forms, on which we Depend

By Gerardo Ceballos | (The Conversation) | – – Vitus Bering, the famous explorer, led perhaps the most ambitious scientific expedition ever in the 1730s. […]

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African-Americans

If Southerners want a Symbol, Why not the Moultrie Liberty Flag?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — There was a rash of Confederate flag removals on Wednesday. The governor of Alabama had it removed […]

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Iraq

Will Iraq Be Libya? Can the Shiite Militiamen Avoid Turning on Each Other?

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) – – Iraq’s Shiite militias have been celebrated and criticised. Now, as differences in everything from weapons to leadership […]

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Apartheid