By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Dear young progressives, If recent polls are to be believed, younger progressive voters like you are either preparing to vote in unusually large numbers for Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, or planning to stay home. If you’re going to stop reading […]
Archives for September 2016
The Presidential Debate that did not really Happen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Regular readers will know that in my view the 2016 presidential election did not happen. Likewise, the first debate between the two candidates did not take place. There was no debate as the word is usually understood, where the two take turns setting out policy positions. […]
Israel Apartheid Wall Is the Muse to Trump’s Mexico Border Wall
By TeleSur | – – Trump’s signature campaign propsosal is modeled, he says, on Israel’s “successful separation barrier.” Ahead of Monday’s presidential debate between U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the two nominees cozied up to their favorite ally in the Middle East, holding meetings with Israeli Prime […]
Syria, Russia push to take East Aleppo pocket as airstrikes kill 66, wound 200
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Only a week after seeming to agree to a ceasefire, Russia and the Syrian regime in Damascus appear to have decided to throw caution to the winds and simply wipe out the pocket of rebel resistance in East Aleppo. If the regime has all of Aleppo, […]
Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians
By Human Rights Watch | – – Authorities Fail to Prevent, Punish Violent Attacks (Tunis) – A long-awaited new law maintains restrictions over the construction and renovation of churches and discriminates against the Christian minority in Egypt. The law, passed by Egypt’s parliament on August 30, 2016, applies only to Christian houses of worship. Recent […]
Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is one of those stupid guys who thinks he’s smart. The media still lets him steamroll them with nonsense. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. “The only explanation for the lopsided […]
ISIL used Chem on US Troops in Iraq; but this time US Gov’t isn’t talking WMD
By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | – – The group known as Islamic State (IS) reportedly used a sulpur-mustard gas against US troops in Iraq. It was detected in a black oily substance found on a rocket fired at an American airbase in Qayyarah, south of the city of Mosul. None of the soldiers […]
The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies for global average temperature to know that it was hotter than any summer since at least 1016, when Genoa launched a campaign against Muslim Sardinia and Norway not only got […]
Netanyahu: I hope Obama won’t seek to establish a Palestinian state
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he “hoped” US President Barack Obama would not seek to establish a Palestinian state at the United Nations on Saturday. In an interview aired on Israel’s Channel 2 on Saturday, Netanyahu was asked if Obama had promised him that […]
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