Informed Comment - Part 1681

Ousted Egyptian President Morsi Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) – Morsi was convicted of ordering the arrest and torture of protesters during the clashes that erupted in […]

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Central Asia

Pakistan as Hong Kong West: China’s New Silk Road & US Failure

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Chinese President Xi Jinping made a state visit, full of pomp and circumstance, to Pakistan on Monday, but […]

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Ethiopia

ISIL’s Libya Affiliate Murders 30 Ethiopian Christians

By EurActiv | – A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday (19 April) appeared to show militants […]

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Apartheid

Gaza: Shortage of Medicines as Israeli Blockade Grinds On

By IMEMC News The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced that the crisis of shortage in medicines and medical disposables has been critically aggravated because […]

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Acidification of Oceans

If Climate Change ends Capitalism, what good are Climate Economists?

By David Ray Griffin | (Informed Comment) – Since the 1970s, when he essentially founded the economics of climate change, William Nordhaus had been considered […]

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Climate Change

China’s Big Clean-Up: Asia’s Hope

By Mark L. Clifford | (Author of The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency) – Asia sometimes feels like one […]

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Featured

Khamenei: US invented nuclear Myth; Iran will Never Invade another Country

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The clerical leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, gave a speech on Sunday in which he urged that Iran […]

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European Union

700 Dead: Is Europe’s Neglect of Mediterranean Migrants a form of Genocide?

By Heaven Crawley The latest refugee deaths in the Mediterranean – up to 700 people drowned when the overcrowded fishing vessel in which they were […]

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Bahrain