Informed Comment - Part 1852

Gulliver and the Lilliputians: It’s America’s Small Wars that are Unwinnable

By Tom Engelhardt It’s possible I’ve lived most of my life on the wrong planet — and if that sounds like the first sentence of […]

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Iraq

Congressman Lloyd Doggett: Don’t be Stampeded into War

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) House Floor Speech September 16, 2014 The Middle Eastern tragedy, in which this resolution will further entangle America, is directly […]

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Should US policy toward ISIL be Containment?

By Juan Cole The US launched air strikes on Tuesday on ISIL targets, south of Baghdad and also in the north. The ones south of […]

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Hurricane cuts off communication with Chabad in Baja California

Rabbi and 9-month-pregnant wife in early labor have not been heard from since Monday evening

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I refuse to serve – the lonely conscience of Israel’s refuseniks

By Ahron Bregman, King’s College London via The Conversation In 1988, I was in Kathmandu in Nepal when I found out that war was raging […]

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Crime

Employers’ theft from Worker Wages 3 times more than all other Theft in US

The Young Turks “As the economy slowly recovers, it’s become increasingly clear that it’s not just unemployed Americans who need help from the government. It’s […]

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Turkey’s Caution on ISIL War: “It’s far away for them but very close to us”

By Ali Murat Yel, Editor-in-Chief TurkeyAgenda In the United States the public has difficulty in understanding the reluctance of Turkey to join the international coalition […]

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