Informed Comment - Part 1870

Gaza: Why a ‘Cease-Fire’ is Not enough

By Juan Cole When ordinary countries fight wars they have war aims. In World War II, the US wanted to defeat Germany militarily, but then […]

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Arab Americans

Arab-Americans take on hate

By Anna Lekas Miller “[This week]… several members of New York City’s Arab-American community filed into the Good Shephard’s Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn […]

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Climate Change

Can Norway’s Dams serve as a Huge Battery storing Europe’s Green Energy?

DW: “Norway derives almost 100 percent of its energy from hydropower. For Germany’s planned transition to renewable energy, a close partnership is crucially important, because […]

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journalism

Hannity Unleashes Shouting Points On Palestinian Guest

Cenk Uygur & The Young Turks: “Sean Hannity got into a shouting match tonight with a Palestinian guest as Hannity repeatedly asked Yousef Munayyer whether […]

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Apartheid

Did Israel go too Far? The Massacre at the UN School/ Refugee Center

By Juan Cole Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports for The Nation from Gaza on the Israeli shelling of a UN school that killed 16 and wounded […]

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Colonialism

Where is Palestine?

AJ+ You can’t find it on a map. But millions call it home. Where is Palestine? It’s complicated. But give us a little over 90 […]

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Barack Obama

Real-Life House of Cards: DOJ says President is Judge Jury & Executioner

By Peter Van Buren via Tomdispatch.com You can’t get more serious about protecting the people from their government than the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, specifically in […]

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