Informed Comment - Part 1727

Keystone XL Opponents Interrogated by FBI

TheLipTV | – “Keystone XL pipeline opponents are being interrogated by the FBI who are using what one lawyer called “intimidation” and “force,” according to […]

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American Jews

Netanyahu Doesn’t Speak For These Jews

AJ+ | – “Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he came to Congress to share his fears about Iran on behalf of all Jewish people. […]

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Iran Reformers – Talks will Succeed: Netanyahu ‘not Influential,’ like Iran Hardliners

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – How did Iranian politicians react to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s anti-Iran speech to the US Congress? Iran’s […]

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Bill of Rights

Snowden will return to US if fair trial guaranteed – NSA whistleblower’s lawyer

RT | – “Edward Snowden would go to the US if he was sure that he would face a fair trial there, the former NSA […]

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Bashar al-Assad

Climate Change helped Provoke Syrian Conflict & it won’t be the Last

By Thalif Deen | – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, […]

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Energy

Earth’s Fate: The Obama Administration, Shell, and Drilling the Arctic

By Subhankar Banerjee | (Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s a Jeopardy!-style question for you: “Eight different species of whales can be seen in these two American seas.” […]

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Israel

Israel’s Squatter Settlements on Palestinian Land Undermine its Security

Bill Van Esveld | (Human Rights Watch) – Israel’s prime minister has set the agenda for his visit to Washington, DC: the impact on Israel’s […]

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4 Things more Dangerous to Israel than Iran’s civilian Nuclear Enrichment

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s strident and continual harping on the alleged dangers of Iran to Israel’s security […]

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Displaced and Refugees