Informed Comment - Part 1759

Not the Onion: Pakistanis Demand arrest of Cleric for not Condemning “Jihadis”

AJ+ |– “Pakistanis are calling for the arrest of a Muslim cleric, Abdul Aziz, who refused to condemn the recent Pakistan Attack that led to […]

contributors

Iraq

The Yezidis: People of an Ancient Faith Battle Ethnic Cleansing

By Richard Foltz | (Special to Informed Comment) — Among the many victims of the barbarous Daesh (what Arabs call ISIS or ISIL), none has […]

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Democracy

Tunisia: Nationalist Candidate’s claimed win in Presidential Poll Contested

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — The major political parties do fairly sophisticated exit polling in Tunisian elections now, and secular, nationalist warhorse Beji […]

Juan Cole

Islam

Israel Turns Beersheba Mosque into Museum, while 10,000 have no place to Pray

BEERSHEBA (Ma’an) — Authorities in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba have recently converted an historic mosque into an Islamic museum despite the fact that […]

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African-Americans

The Other Torture Report: What the USA looks like to the World

(special to Informed Comment) — At long last – despite the attempts at sabotage by, and over the protests of the CIA, and notwithstanding the […]

Rebecca Gordon

Iraq

How the Iraq Wars began with the Invasion of Panama

By Greg Grandin | (Tomdispatch.com) — As we end another year of endless war in Washington, it might be the perfect time to reflect on […]

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Entertainment

Anthony Bourdain on Iran and Beirut (Bisley Interview)

By Alexander Bisley | (Special to Informed Comment) — “By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, […]

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Displaced and Refugees

Kurds inflict first Major Defeat on Daesh/ ISIL, Rescue Yezidis of Sinjar

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — The pan-Arab London daily, Al-Hayat [Life] reports that the Iraqi Kurdistan paramilitary, the Peshmerga, have taken Mt. Sinjar […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change