Informed Comment - Part 1969

Turkey’s Ruling Party enacts “Orwellian” Web Censorship

(Via AFP) Turkey lawmakers adopt ‘Orwellian’ Internet curbs (via AFP) Turkish MPs late Wednesday adopted new Internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by […]

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Human Rights

“In the Seam”: Israel Strangles Palestinian Town

(By Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch) (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military is severely harming livelihoods in a Palestinian village in the West Bank that […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula

Congress to CIA: Provide US Drone Victim Count

(By Alice K. Ross) The CIA director and other intelligence chiefs were urged to increase transparency over covert drone operations by members of the House […]

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Featured

Camel Bones and Jerusalem: Archeology Shows Bible written Late, Full of Errors

(By Juan Cole) A new paper by Israeli archeologists Lidar Sapir-Hen and Erez Ben-Yosef, [pdf] posted at the University of Tel Aviv web site , […]

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Climate Change

Iceland: Major Green Energy Breakthrough using Magma for Geothermal

(Via CleanTechnica) First Magma-Enhanced Geothermal System In The World Developed In Iceland (via Clean Technica) The first “magma-enhanced” geothermal system in the world — the […]

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censorship

Bush ordered NSA to spy on Germany’s Schroeder over Iraq War Opposition

(By Juan Cole) The Guardian reports that the George W. Bush administration put German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s personal telephone under surveillance in 2002. Schroeder was […]

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Dissent

The Death of God in Iraq: 32% of Iraqis not Sure God Exists, 11% think Not

(By Mariwan Salihi) Despite its dangers and taboos in the conflict-ridden nation, some Iraqi youth are turning towards atheism. Mariwan Salihi met a few of […]

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Barack Obama

Broken Democracy: Republicans poised to take Senate, Americans Reject their Platform

(By Juan Cole) A lot of political analysts think it is entirely possible that the Republicans will take the senate next November. This development won’t […]

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