Informed Comment - Part 1700

Who Has A Stake In Yemen Fight?

By Michael Scollon | (RFE/RL) – Yemen is at the center of a proxy war between regional heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia. It's the source […]

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Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbullah slams Saudi attack on Yemen

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hizbullah, Lebanese Shiite party-militia, weighed in on Friday on the Saudi intervention in […]

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Bill of Rights

Will Indiana ‘Religious Freedom’ Law permit anti-Gay Discrimination?

Jackie Koppell and Jo Ankier | (TheLipTV) “Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a religious freedom bill into law amid pressure from opponents who argue that […]

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Apartheid

More Palestinians killed than any year since1967, Says United Nations

By Valentina Ieri UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – In 2014, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) saw the worst escalation of hostilities […]

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American Jews

Ted Cruz Thinks Non-Christians Have Too Much Power

Cenk Uygur, John Iadaola and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks) – “Cenk Uygur, John Iadaola and Jimmy Dore host of The Young Turks discusses […]

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Israel

The rise of the Israeli far right & the future of Palestine

By Ghassan Khatib | (Ma’an News Agency) – The victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies last week at the polls amounts to a […]

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Economy

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 […]

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Foreign Policy

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 […]

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