Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]
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The United States of Paranoia — From the Salem Witch Hunt to Conspirator-in-Chief Donald Trump
By Steve Fraser | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – News is “faked”; elections are “rigged”; a “deep state” plots a “coup”; Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia […]
Amy Coney Barrett: You can’t actually be pro-life if you deny burning Fossil Fuels causes the Climate Emergency; Denialism is Mass Murder
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amy Coney Barrett is a denialist when it comes to the human-caused climate emergency. Rachel Koning Beals at Marketwatch notes […]
If it is Tuesday, this must be Occupied Palestine: Tourism in the Service of Israeli Colonialism
By Halah Ahmad | – ( Al-Shabakah) – Tourism has been critical to the Zionist enterprise since the first Zionists settled Palestine. Al-Shabaka policy analyst […]
How Islamophobia drove the Reception of the poorly fact-checked ‘Caliphate’ Broadcast
By Fahad Ahmad | – On Sept. 25, the RCMP arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, a Muslim man, for allegedly fabricating his affiliation with the Islamic State […]
Will Tunisia, the only Success of the Arab Spring, be Ruined by a Police Protection Bill?
By Rima Sghaier | – ( Global Voices ) – As the Tunisian parliament considers a controversial police protection bill, protests erupted in the city […]
Khashoggi’s Ghost: World Resoundingly rejects Saudi membership on UN Human Rights Council
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sulayman Hajj Ibrahim writes in the London pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] that Saudi Arabia’s bid to join the […]
Election 2020 sees record $11 billion in campaign spending, mostly from a handful of super-rich donors
By Richard Briffault | – Total spending in the 2020 federal elections is projected to set a new record of almost US$11 billion by November. […]
Trump’s Art of the Arms Deal: Filling up the Volatile Middle East with High-Tech Weapons
( Tomdispatch.com) – The United States has the dubious distinction of being the world’s leading arms dealer. It dominates the global trade in a historic […]
Saudis now Boycott, Oppose Turkey, but once Sought its Security Umbrella: Clinton Files
By Daud Abdullah | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – This is one of the uncomfortable questions raised by the newly declassified Clinton files. […]
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