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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change
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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change

Juan Cole

the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

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The Yezidis:  People of an Ancient Faith Battle Ethnic Cleansing

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

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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Iraq
How the Iraq Wars began with the Invasion of Panama

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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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

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 […]

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GOP Denialism to Sink Capital: 150 Tidal Floods a Year for Washington DC by 2045

GOP Denialism to Sink Capital: 150 Tidal Floods a Year for Washington DC by 2045

Link TV | — “The eastern coast of the United States– from the Gulf of Mexico to New England — has one of the highest […]

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Leftist Jordanians protest expected gas deal with Israel

Leftist Jordanians protest expected gas deal with Israel

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of protesters marched in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday to denounce a gas deal with Israel that is expected […]

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