Informed Comment - Part 1728

Syria: Dear Bashar al-Assad: Barrel Bombs Are No Laughing Matter

By Philippe Bolopion | (Human Rights Watch) | — It speaks volumes when the leader of a country feels emboldened to respond with humor when […]

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Climate Change

Abandoning Diesel: Battery-powered train brings low-carbon commuting to UK

Reuters | — “The first battery-powered passenger train to run on Britain’s tracks in over 50 years completes a five-week trial in a bid to […]

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Barack Obama

Against Torture: American Heroes who Indicted Cheney’s Dark Side

By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) Why was it again that, as President Obama said, “we tortured some folks” after the 9/11 attacks? Oh, right, because […]

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Israel/ Palestine

As Sweden opens Palestine Embassy, President Abbas Visits

Euronews | – “The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is in Sweden for talks with the country’s new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. It is his first […]

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Iran

2nd Iranian Commander killed in Iraq defending Samarra Golden Dome

By RFE/RL | – A commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been killed in Iraq, Iranian media reported. The Tasnim news agency, […]

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Barack Obama

Obama on his Foreign Policy: Between Realism and Idealism

By Matthew Iglesias | (Vox) – “When it comes to foreign policy, is President Obama a realist or an idealist? Turns out he rejects both […]

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art and photography

Beaten over call for co-existence: French artist’s religious graffiti

RT | – “French grafitti artist ‘Combo’ got beaten for a graffiti of himself in Arabic clothes with the world ‘coexist’, with symbols of three […]

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When you’ve Lost Bernie Sanders: How Netanyahu destroyed the Israel Lobby

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Senator Bernie Sanders, the most consistent and prominent progressive in the US Senate, has decided to skip the […]

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