Informed Comment - Part 1926

“It’s all Right to Make Fun of the Government”: Bassem Youssef (Egypt’s Jon Stewart)

Bassem Youssef: “It’s OK to make fun of ourselves” “BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman talks to Bassem Youssef, also known as the “Egyptian Jon Stewart”, about […]

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Dissent

Top 5 US Government Decisions that put Troops more at Risk than Snowden Did

(By Juan Cole) The propaganda wars in Washington continue over Edward Snowden’s revelation that the National Security Agency and other Federal government departments have in […]

Juan Cole

Anti-Arab graffiti scrawled in West Bank village

Latest price tag attack appears to be revenge for beating of settlers near Esh Kodesh earlier in the week

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Climate Change

60 Minutes goes Benghazi on Cleantech & Gets that Wrong Too

(By Joe Romm) 60 Minutes Ignores The Facts In Clean Energy Segment (via Clean Technica) Originally published on ClimateProgressby Joe Romm Clean technology is booming […]

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Iraq

Iraq’s Real Problem: A US Occupation legacy of Sectarian Politics

(By Mohammed Alomari) Violence in Iraq is again in the news. The biggest problem we face about what is going on in Iraq is the […]

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Dissent

How Egypt’s Revolution veered toward Authoritarian Crackdown

(By Mohammed Fadel) In response to a December 24 bombing in the town of Mansoura, the Egyptian government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. […]

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Afghanistan