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Archives for January 2018
How Iran’s Bread Riots turned anti-Systemic & what it means for the Future
Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | – – Iran started 2018 with protest rallies and anti-riot police in many cities across the country. Public protests against the regime caught many observers by surprise, just as the 2011 Arab Spring had done. But displays of public anger in Iran are not new. Throughout 2017, Iran witnessed […]
Trump Admin flooding Planet with high Tech Weapons; What could Go Wrong?
Military-Industrial Complex Set for Huge Expansion
Nearly a year after Trump bombed Syria, al-Assad and Russia extend control
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian war limps along at the margins. It is over where it matters but continues in key demographic pockets. The two most significant are East Ghouta near the al-Assad-held capital of Damascus and the province of Idlib in the northwest of the country. East Ghouta […]
Burn Pits and Toxins: Are 800 US Bases abroad Scofflaw Polluters?
H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – My nephew, an Army veteran who spent most of his 20 plus years military service as an officer in South Korea, is now a civilian military contractor living on a base in Afghanistan. Our only conversation about US military pollution in South Korea was something of […]
Tunisia: Austerity Protests roil Birthplace of Arab Spring
TeleSur | – – Protests have been taking place across the North African country over the past several nights in protest against government austerity measures at the behest of the IMF. At least one person is dead and 200 people have been arrested during several nights of protests in Tunisia, according to The Guardian. Protests […]
EVs are Better: Iranian oil tanker in East China Sea could burn for a month
Middle East Monitor | – – The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as the blaze raged for a fourth day following a collision with a freight ship. Dozens of rescue boats battled […]
Take That! NYC pulls $5 bn from Big Oil, Sues Majors for Climate Damage
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – “We are taking the largest action by any city to confront the growing climate crisis and demonstrate the leadership necessary to win this fight against fossil fuels and the damages they’ve caused.” Climate advocates hailed what they say is a “watershed” moment on Wednesday […]
Iran’s Khamenei: Trump Unbalanced, Playing Crazy Games, but Iran policy will Fail
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iran’s clerical leader, Ali Khamenei, gave a speech in Qom on Tuesday, in which he warned Donald Trump that his “crazy games” would not go without a response. Western news outlets such as the NYT tried to represent this speech as a threat, and some outlets […]
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