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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – AFP is reporting that a news agency linked to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), “A`maq,” is carrying a video of a Daesh fighter who swears that he and his colleagues will inflict a decisive defeat on the US in Iraq, as the guerrillas spread through the streets of […]

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7 Things to Know about Mosul

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has begun in earnest. The Iraqi Army, the Peshmerga (Kurdistan Regional Government national guard), Sunni Arab tribal levies, and Shiite militiamen from the south are […]

Republican Party

The Jewish vote may swing key undecided counties, study says

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By Daniel Parmer | (The Conversation) | – – Jews may account for roughly only 2 percent of the American adult population, but their concentration in a number of swing states and counties makes them a potentially pivotal demographic in this fall’s presidential election. Between 80 and 85 percent of Jews turn out to vote […]

Climate Change

Clinton brings back Gore, talks Green, but still Opposes Carbon Tax

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton campaigned in Miami with Al Gore, attempting both to shore up her credentials with both environmentalists and Millennial youth. Gore, Bill Clinton’s vice president, very narrowly lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush, mainly because of a disputed Florida count. Gore […]

Republican Party

GOP finally shocked as Trump admits to being serial Groper of white women on Hot Mic

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By TeleSur | – – Trump was caught using vulgar terms to refer to women he tried to seduce. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged about groping, aggressively kissing and making sexual advances toward a married woman, a taped conversation obtained by the Washington Post published on Friday reveals. The recording was made in 2005 […]

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Whose Fault is Trump? Top 7 Culprits

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign platform has from the beginning been based on racism, religious bigotry, class warfare of the rich on workers, hatred of women, and a whole series of other unacceptable and disgusting planks. Not since David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan ran […]

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Syria: Russia warns of Mideast Apocalypse if US attacks al-Assad’s military

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – ABC News reports that Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that a U.S. attack on the Syrian army “will lead to terrible, tectonic consequences not only on the territory of this country but also in the region on the whole.” She maintained that if the regime […]

Climate Change

In Boon for EVs, Solar Panels, California will roll back CO2 Emissions to 40% Below 1990

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The California legislature worked on a carbon dioxide emissions reduction bill for a year, and is finally sending it to the governor for his signature. It is one of the more ambitious pieces of CO2 legislation by any US state, more resembling policies of the European […]

Climate Change

Iowa could go 100% Green with Wind in only 14 years, w/ Few Birds Killed, Mr. Trump

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iowa gets 31% of its electricity from wind turbines, the highest percentage in the nation (though Texas generates more than twice as many megawatts from wind). But you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Some Iowa planners think that in only 14 years Iowa will be able to […]