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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How GOP threats against Iran have Guaranteed end of European Sanctions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The US sanction regime on Iran has a unilateral dimension. That is, there are sanctions only the US […]
Old GOP Realist James Baker’s hard Ride among Neocons
By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) – (Washington, D.C.) – Neoconservatives are beside themselves over James Baker’s speech at the recent Fifth National Conference of […]
Assyrian Christians and the ISIS Assault on the Remains of Nineveh
By Adam H. Becker | (Informed Comment) In their sanctimonious showboating ISIS has trashed the ruins of ancient Assyria and this is a loss for […]
Why The Iraqi Army Is Stuck On The Outskirts of Tikrit
By Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) – (Baghdad) – The offensive to re-take Tikrit from extremists seems to have stalled as troops surround the city but […]
Founding Fathers decried Standing Army: How about a Global Pentagon?
By William D. Hartung | (Tomdispatch.com) President Obama and Senator John McCain, who have clashed on almost every conceivable issue, do agree on one thing: […]
What’s Religion Got to do with it? German Co-Pilot as Terrorist
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Once it became clear that Andreas Lubitz, 28, deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, a reporter immediately asked “what […]
Obama: GOP has no Alternative to Obamacare b/c it was their Plan
CBSnews.com | (Web extras) “On the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the president slams Republican critics for their unfulfilled predictions of doom and […]
Cleanest Country in the World? Costa Rica goes 100% Renewable Energy
ITN | – (On Demand News) “Costa Rica manages to achieve a clean energy milestone by using only renewable energy for the first 75 days […]
Would a US-Iran Deal end US Military Interventions in ME?
RT | – “Nuclear talks have resumed in Switzerland with the US and Iran struggling to clinch a crucial deal ahead of the March deadline. […]
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