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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War
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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on […]

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A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

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We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

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Worst than ISIL: Iraq's US-caused Public Health Catastrophe

Worst than ISIL: Iraq’s US-caused Public Health Catastrophe

By Mozhgan Savabieasfahani | (Informed Comment) The Iraqi people, once the envy of the Arab world for their outstanding educational and health-care systems, have been […]

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Palestine:  2014 sees Record number of Journalists Targeted

Palestine: 2014 sees Record number of Journalists Targeted

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) said Sunday that 2014 saw 465 violations of media freedoms in the occupied […]

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Palestinian-Israelis Aspire to National Role after Elections

Palestinian-Israelis Aspire to National Role after Elections

France24 | – At 20% of the Israeli population, Israelis of Palestinian heritage have united to back a single party and for the first time […]

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Dear MSM: The Israeli Elections are about Minority rights, not Iran

Dear MSM: The Israeli Elections are about Minority rights, not Iran

By Sammy Smooha | (The Conversation) There are 5.3 million eligible voters living in Israel today (votes may be not cast abroad). Among these voters […]

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Top 5 ways Netanyahu sabotaged US and Israel Interests

Top 5 ways Netanyahu sabotaged US and Israel Interests

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Binyamin Netanyahu is fighting the most difficult political battle of his life. His party seems likely to come […]

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Shale Oil is no Savior- its rail cars keep exploding in our home towns

Shale Oil is no Savior- its rail cars keep exploding in our home towns

By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) On July 6th, 2013, a train composed of tank cars filled with shale oil sat on the railroad tracks […]

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Gaza:  Child Survivors with PTSD - Aftermath of the Israeli offensive

Gaza: Child Survivors with PTSD – Aftermath of the Israeli offensive

RT | – “The UN is looking into possible war-crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. RT’s Bel Trew has the stories of those who survivor […]

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Why is no one asking? Did GOP & Israel Lobbies write Iran Letter for the good of America?

Why is no one asking? Did GOP & Israel Lobbies write Iran Letter for the good of America?

By Hamid Zangeneh | (Informed Comment) People who worry about American national interests and security fall in one of the two categories: they either trust […]

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Could Sunni-Shiite Rift make Tikrit a Pyrrhic Victory? Al-Azhar & Shiite Militias

Could Sunni-Shiite Rift make Tikrit a Pyrrhic Victory? Al-Azhar & Shiite Militias

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The foremost Sunni Muslim seat of learning, al-Azhar University in Cairo, has stirred controversy by issuing a considered legal […]

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