Informed Comment - Part 1905

The US isn’t a Police State, but it is a Managed Democracy

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com —— Related video: TheRealNews: “Obama Expands Militarization of Police” )

The Theater of Conspiracy in the Run-up to Turkey’s Elections

(By Erdağ Göknar) The novel Snow by Nobel-prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk exposes the logic of Middle Eastern nationalism. Not surprisingly, political conspiracy has a […]

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Featured

Tens of Thousands in Turkey Protest Tyranny of the Majority

(By Juan Cole) Tens of thousands of Turks demonstrated in Istanbul and other cities on Wednesday coming off the funeral of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan. Elvan […]

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al-Qaeda

Cole @ C-Span: Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda (video lecture)

(By Juan Cole) My class lecture, “Egypt and the Birth of al-Qaeda,” was filmed by C-Span in February and has been shown on television; it […]

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Climate Change

Renewable Energy Boom coming to the Middle East

Middle East North Africa Area To See Renewable Energy Boom (via Clean Technica) The trade association behind the DESERTEC Concept of the same name has […]

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Barack Obama

President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on “Between Two Ferns”

President Obama on funnyordie.com plugging the Affordable Health Care Act: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama —– Related […]

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Climate Change

By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis

(By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch) As the San Francisco bureaucrats on the dais murmured about why they weren’t getting anywhere near what we in the […]

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Domestic Surveillance

When it is Feinstein being Spied on, Suddenly she Squawks

(By Juan Cole) Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) took to the senate floor on Tuesday to denounce the Central Intelligence Agency for spying on her staff […]

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Economy