Informed Comment - Part 1714

ISIL, Yemen, Syria: Drought, Climate Change and new Wars

By David Reed | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – Natural resource scarcity poses a far broader challenge to prosperity and national security than traditional military […]

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Apartheid

French Firm Pulls Out of Jerusalem Cable Car Project

by IMEMC News | – France-based utility giant Suez Environnement said Wednesday that, because of political sensitivities, it has decided not to take part in […]

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Climate Change

Antarctic Ice Melting Faster than Ever in “Unstoppable Decline”

By Laurence Padman, Fernando Paolo and Helen Amanda Fricker | (The Conversation) Ask people what they know about Antarctica and they usually mention cold, snow […]

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Houthi

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