Informed Comment - Part 1715

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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Assyrians

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 […]

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Iraq

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 […]

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Constitution

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: […]

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Featured

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 […]

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Barack Obama

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 […]

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Climate Change