Informed Comment - Part 1727

Williams Affair: Reagan and Bush Lied about Military Records but Get a Pass

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams is under fire for repeatedly having told an embellished story of being […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid

Report: 151 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — At least 151 Palestinian children are currently being held as “security prisoners” in Israeli jails, Palestinian legal monitor Military Court Watch said […]

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Militarization

The Lone-Wolf Terror Trap: Why the Cure Will Be Worse Than the Disease

By Matthew Harwood | (Tomdispatch.com) The shadow of a new threat seems to be darkening the national security landscape: the lone-wolf terrorist. “The lone wolf […]

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Western Jews

‘Muslims are Jews’ natural allies in Europe’: Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

RT | – “Europe’s economic difficulties in recent years have led to a rise in radicalism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks […]

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Bush

Is ISIL’s ‘Shock and Awe’ more Awe-ful because One Victim?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) burning of a captured Jordanian pilot alive produced justified revulsion globally, resulting in […]

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Bashar al-Assad

Paying the Piper: How America’s Iraq War haunts its Failed Syria Policy

By Michael MacDonald, author of Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq | (Special to Informed Comment | – If recent reports in the New […]

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Culture

Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II

By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | — Well done, Team Internet. After a year of intense activism, we may have finally convinced the […]

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Apartheid