Informed Comment - Part 1688

Ragtag Kurdish Forces Face ISIL assaults at ‘The Kobani of Iraq’

By Shalaw Mohammed | Kirkuk | (Niqash.org) — NIQASH visits the northern Iraqi town of Kharabaroot, near Kirkuk, which has become the frontline for fighting […]

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Climate Change

Floods and fires across Southern Africa raise alarm bells on climate change

SABC News | — “Floods and fires across the southern african region are raising alarm bells on climate change once again. These effects are being […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama

Netanyahu Imported by GOP to ensure Iran War

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — Republican House Majority leader John Boehner secretly invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Washington to address Congress […]

Juan Cole

Germany

Surprise! German anti-Muslim Leader Resigns after Posing as Hitler

Euronews | — “The leader of the anti-Islamisation PEGIDA organization in Germany has quit after a photo of him posing as Hitler was published in […]

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Climate Change

Solar-powered plane to set off from Abu Dhabi for global flight

BBC News | — “The plans have been set for the solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, to take off from Abu Dhabi and then fly […]

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Education

Pakistan: Fighting Extremism with Schools, Not Guns

By Zofeen Ebrahim | — KARACHI (IPS) – As a wave of outrage, crossing Pakistan’s national borders, continues a month after the Dec. 16 attack […]

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Islamic Jihad

Israel: Palestinian man arrested after stabbing nine on Tel Aviv bus

IMEMC | — By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC & Agencies) — A Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem was shot, then taken […]

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Barack Obama

Obama to GOP: More Iran sanctions lead to War (& 7 other Foreign Policy points in SOTU)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address slighted foreign policy in favor of touting domestic progress and […]

Juan Cole

Democracy