Informed Comment - Part 1647

Cunning Stunts in Iraq: ISIL Sleeper Cells Are Secret Weapon in Ramadi

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) – Refugees from Ramadi trying to escape the city and extremists. Last week’s small extremist victories in Ramadi were […]

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Human Rights

Video Shows Ethiopian-Israeli Soldier Beaten By Police – Violent Clashes In Tel Aviv

AJ+ | — “Clashes on the streets of Tel Aviv. Thousands of Israelis of Ethiopian origin have taken to the streets after a video appeared […]

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Buddhism

Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave

Wochit News / IRIN | – “Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a […]

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Apartheid

Israeli soldier testimonies reveal ‘shoot to kill’ policy in Gaza war

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Testimonies from over 60 Israeli soldiers and officers who fought during last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip were released to the […]

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Banking

Warren Buffett betting big on Wind Energy in Nebraska, & other Planet-Saving News

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Wind power is on a roll in the US despite a fickle Congress and the machinations of Big […]

Juan Cole

Israel

Black Lives Matter in Israel too: Protest against police violence

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | — Several thousand people, mostly hailing from Israel’s large Ethiopian population, took to the streets of Tel […]

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Human Rights

Daesh in Mosul seeks Child Soldiers, Child Suicide-Bombers

By Khales Joumah | Mosul | (Niqash.org) – One of the latest inventions by the Islamic State in Mosul is the mobile pulpit. Most recently […]

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Barack Obama

“Bug Splat”: Body Counts, Drones, and “Collateral Damage”

Tom Englehardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – The Obama administration has adamantly refused to count. Not a body. In fact, for a long time, American officials […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Change