Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]
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Water Delivery, Hospitals endangered as Yemen is plunged into Darkness
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Yemen generates 800 megawatts of electricity under ordinary circumstances, which powers its hospitals, including emergency care units, and […]
Triassic Graveyard: 200 Mn Years ago, CO2 emissions like ours led to Mass Extinction
By Jessica H. Whiteside | (The Conversation) – Just over 200 million years ago, the end-Triassic mass extinction killed off more than half of the […]
Marriage Mosul-Style: Love In The Time of The Caliphate
By Khales Joumah | (Niqash.org) | — (Mosul) – Despite restrictions of life under extremist rule and an uncertain future, locals in Mosul are still […]
Child Labor On Israeli Farms Exposed
AJ+ | – Human Rights Watch has exposed Palestinian child labor on farms in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Children – many […]
President Hillary Clinton’s Middle East Policy: Interventions, Wars, More of Same
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Hillary Clinton announced her bid for the presidency Sunday, prompting another of these attempts at IC to do […]
What the Tsarnaevs didn’t Know: The Untold Story of Chechen Non-Violence
By Rebecca Gould | (Informed Comment) While the Boston bombing trial continues to dominate the media, its perpetrators, the Tsarnaev brothers, are associated with a […]
Oil Train Derailments, Exploding Towns & the Hidden Cost of Fracked Oil
By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) On July 6th, 2013, at about one AM, an unattended 74-car oil train loaded with fracking-derived Bakken crude oil […]
How Iran won Bush’s Iraq War
By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com) The U.S. is running around in circles in the Middle East, patching together coalitions here, acquiring strange bedfellows […]
US history of coup-making Overshadows Obama’s outreach to Iran, Latin American Left
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – President Obama met with Cuban President Raoul Castro for an hour on Saturday, and the two made progress […]
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