Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 , the Israeli government on Friday approved the ceasefire in Gaza and the […]
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Running out of Time to overrule the 1% on urgent Climate Action
By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch.com There have undoubtedly been stable periods in human history, but you and your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents never lived through […]
Education, Health, and Global Warming: Top 5 Reasons 45% of Scots Wanted to Leave the Right Wing UK
by Juan Cole The US media coverage of the Scottish referendum is oddly lacking in any reference to actual politics. As usual, the corporate media […]
Will Independence Harm Scotland’s Green Advantage?
(Bloomberg) –- Renewable energy is found in abundance in Scotland; nearly half of the country’s electricity comes from green sources. But will an independent Scotland […]
Coalition Of One: Iran Leads Own Fight Against Islamic State
By Charles Recknagel, RFE/RL The United States is putting together the first international coalition to try to roll back the Islamic State (IS) militants in […]
A Way out of the Gaza Trap
By Jean-Pierre Filiu, author of Gaza: A History One person has been enjoying every minute of this summer’s fifty-day war on Gaza. He was known […]
Is Israel’s Far-Right Government Inciting against the Israeli Left?
Middle East Eye Leftist Israeli activists staged weekly protests during the war in Gaza and they were confronted by rightwing protesters that shouted racial slurs […]
Shiite Militias of Iraq Reject US Return, Threaten to Attack US Forces
By Juan Cole The pan-Arab, London-based daily, “Al-Sharq al-Awsat” (The Middle East) reports that the major Shiite militias of Iraq are denouncing Prime Minister Haydar […]
The Next Conflict in Iraq? Will the Kurds try to Annex Kirkuk Permanently?
By Nawzat Shamdeen | Berlin | via Niqash.org What will happen to Iraq’s “disputed territories” once Sunni Muslim extremists have been driven out? Will the […]
CBS Unjustly Punishes Rihanna For Ray Rice Controversy
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks “CBS Sports pulled Rihanna’s intro to Thursday night’s NFL game between the Ravens and the Steelers following the release […]
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