Informed Comment - Part 1663

As US Consulate in Irbil. Iraq, is Bombed, can US still do Diplomacy in ME?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) A bombing that killed 3 people and wounded 10 on Saturday outside the US consulate in Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, […]

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Iran

If U.S. Bombed Iran What Would Actually Happen?

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) – ” Cenk Uygur host of The Young Turks discusses what would happen if the United States decided to […]

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Iraq

Iraq: Shiite Gov’t faces Mammoth Task in taking Sunni al-Anbar from ISIL

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) – Only a few hours after the start of the next big military campaign against the Islamic State […]

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Houthi

Yemen: U.N. calls for Ceasefire, denounces War Crimes

By Thalif Deen | – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The United Nations, which is providing humanitarian aid to over 50 million refugees worldwide, is struggling […]

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Energy

Clean Disruption: Why Conventional Energy and Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030

Tony Seba | “Tony Seba gives the keynote address at the NZ SmartGrid Forum at the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand, March 31, […]

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Dissent

Iraq: Why it doesn’t Matter if Ezzat al-Douri was Killed

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The currently partly unemployed Iraqi governor of Salahuddin Province, displaced from much of his territory by Daesh (ISIS […]

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Apartheid

Israeli Supreme Court Upholds ‘Anti-Boycott Law’

By Sarah Saadoun | (Human Rights Watch) – On Wednesday, Israel’s Supreme Court upheld key provisions of the country’s “anti-boycott law,” which makes it a civil […]

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Human Rights

On ‘Prisoners Day,’ PLO tells Israel: Let my People Go

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi on Friday marked Palestinian Prisoner’s Day by demanding that Israel end its “captivity” of the Palestinian people […]

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Desertification