(Istanbul: Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On October 22, Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and an ally of […]
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America’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Legacy to Iraq: Sectarian Violence Mounts with 95 Dead
Bombings killed at least 95 people on Monday in Iraq, with 10 car bombs going off in the capital of Baghdad alone. Two car bombs […]
Russia’s Lavrov on Solving Syria through Diplomacy (Text of Interview)
The USG Open Source Center translates an interview by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov from Russian, treating Syria and Palestine. Russian Foreign Minister Discusses Syria, […]
Storms and Extreme Weather: The Impact of Climate Change (Videos)
Any particular storm is weather, not climate. That is, it is a discrete event, whereas climate is a decades-long pattern of such events. But the […]
Pakistan, Islam and Democracy
Pakistan, a country 97 percent Muslim, has just made its first successful transition from one elected, civilian government to another since its founding in 1947. […]
Renewable Energy in Marrakech: Solar Water Pumps & More (Video)
Morocco has enormous solar and wind energy potential and plans to get 40% of its electricity from green energy sources by 2020, only 7 years […]
Tunisia and Libya take on Ansar al-Sharia Militants
Clashes broke out on Sunday in a western suburb of Tunis and in the city of Kairouan at the Mosque of the Martyrs between Tunisian […]
Massive Meteoroid Impact on Moon shines like Small Star (NASA Video)
That boulder-sized meteoroid that hit the moon on the 17th, causing a star-bright conflagration? NASA reports that it likely was part of a whole pack […]
Climate Change Denial is Costing us Trillions, Threatening Farming, Fishing, Animals (Video)
Michael Mann: Climate change is already costing us $1 trillion a year. Aljazeera asks Professor Mann why there is still confusion among Americans about the […]
The Lotto Symbolizes the False Promises of Barracuda Capitalism, and it Won’t make you Happy to Win
Late capitalism in the United States is a process whereby more and more of the national income is going every month to a smaller number […]