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Turkey takes Afrin, pulls down Statue Now-Ruz Revolutionary Kaveh

Turkey takes Afrin, pulls down Statue Now-Ruz Revolutionary Kaveh

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Tuesday, March 20, is the spring equinox this year. Iranians, Kurds, Central Asians and many in Pakistan and India celebrate the equinox as the New Year, which after all makes a lot more sense than starting it in the dead of winter. Spring is symbolically the […]

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Trump, McCabe and our Permanent Constitutional Crisis

Trump, McCabe and our Permanent Constitutional Crisis

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s conviction that being president means never having to say you are sorry, and being able to do whatever the hell you please, is likely to cause him legal trouble sooner or later. His vindictive firing of deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, just before McCabe could […]

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Thousands flee E. Ghouta as Regime Army Advances, Rebels ask for Talks

Thousands flee E. Ghouta as Regime Army Advances, Rebels ask for Talks

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Thousands of civilians fled the southern pocket of the East Ghouta suburb of Damascus on Thursday and Friday and Saturday, carrying what few belongings they could with them. The rate seems to have been about 10,000 people a day until today. Russian sources are saying 11,000 […]

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Why Electric SUVs will save the American Car Companies, not China Tariffs

Why Electric SUVs will save the American Car Companies, not China Tariffs

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Joann Muller at Forbes, in a piece on Ford Motor Company’s plans vastly to expand its electric and hybrid offerings, puts her finger on something absolutely crucial. Ford and other American car companies really, really need electric sport utility vehicles in order to get through the […]

Donald Trump
Happiness Index: From Immigrants to Health, how Trump & GOP are making America Sad (Sad)

Happiness Index: From Immigrants to Health, how Trump & GOP are making America Sad (Sad)

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The World Happiness Index is out this year, and the United States is ranked only 18 for the years 2015-2017– lower than Iceland or Costa Rica, and not much ahead of places with real problems like Mexico and Brazil. And, the US has fallen 4 spots […]

Donald Trump
Pompeo, Big Oil and the attack on Iran Deal

Pompeo, Big Oil and the attack on Iran Deal

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – All you need to know about Mike Pompeo, the four-term congressman from Kansas who is actually from California, is that most of his life he has been in business with the Koch brothers. His appointment as Secretary of State puts a seal on Trump’s withdrawal from […]

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How Trump is losing in Syria & why Haley is Posturing

How Trump is losing in Syria & why Haley is Posturing

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Well, I say Trump is losing, but it isn’t clear that Trump has a policy in Syria or cares whether he wins. The Department of Defense is losing. Its policy was to 1. defeat ISIL with the help of the leftist Kurds of the YPG (People’s […]

Education
A California Trend Worth Catching: College for All

A California Trend Worth Catching: College for All

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By Chuck Collins | (Inequality.org) | – – Blogging Our Great Divide America’s left coast is showing how to break up concentrated wealth and fund higher education for all. California can be an annoyingly trendy state. Think avocado toast, In-N-Out Burger, Hollywood fashion, even legal pot. But Californians are now in the vanguard to fix […]

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Saudi Crown Prince Implicated: Credible reports of Torture and Murder in Ritz Carlton: NYT

Saudi Crown Prince Implicated: Credible reports of Torture and Murder in Ritz Carlton: NYT

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The late Saudi Maj. Gen. Ali al-Qahtani is said to have shown up at the morgue from the Riyadh Ritz Carlton where he had been imprisoned by Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, 32, with a broken neck, bruises and swelling all over his body, and […]

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