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Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks

Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - After several years in which refugees and migration have featured heavily in the Western media narrative, a disturbing correlation between human trafficking and conflict…

Syria: Russians alarmed, Washington Befuddled, by White House threats

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The unusual statement from the "White House" on Monday saying that there were indications that the Syrian regime was preparing to use poison…

Is Putin’s Russia the critical threat Americans believe it to be?

Ronald Suny | (The Conversation) | - - U.S. intelligence agencies – 17 of them – agree that evidence shows the Russian government hacked the Democratic National Committee and waged a campaign…

Trump’s Escalations of War in Syria—Sleepwalking into a Global Confrontation

By Reese Erlich | (The Progressive) | - - Syrian President Bashar al Assad claims to have won the war and that he is merely mopping up remaining rebel groups. With its…

Green France: Macron bans Fracking and welcomes US renewables Scientists fleeing Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The French government wants to steal increasingly unemployed US green energy scientists, who are being systematically defunded by the Trump administration. After Trump…

1/2 of World’s Civilian War Deaths were in Syria, Iraq & Yemen during past Half-Decade

By IPS World Desk | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME/GENEVA (IPS) - Between 2010 and 2015, nearly half of all civilian war deaths worldwide occurred in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,…

Russo-US dog fights over Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Yara Bayoumi at Reuters reports on the complicated minuet being danced by Russia, the Syrian Air Force, and the United States. The Syrian…

Aerospace Campaign in Syria: Did Putin kill ISIL’s so-called ‘caliph’?

TeleSur | - - The statement came a day after Russia said it killed several senior leaders, 30 field commanders and up to 300 of their personal guards in an airstrike last…

Putin offers Comey Asylum, likens him to Snowden

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - BBC Monitoring translates the remarks of Russian President Vladimir Putin broadcast on Rosiyya 1 TV on Thursday. He responded to the remarks last…

Session on Harris’s Questions re: Russia: “It makes me Nervous”

Sessions on Harris’s Questions re: Russia: “It makes me Nervous”

TeleSur | - - Sessions' testimony did not provide any damaging new information on alleged Trump campaign ties with Russia. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday denounced as a "detestable lie" the…

Speaking Truth to Erdogan: His Authoritarian Turn and Europe

By Ludwig Schulz | German Orient Institute | (Via Euractiv.com ) | - - Ludwig Schulz looks at how scientific analysis can help counter President Erdoğan’s fake narrative of Turkey’s thriving democracy…

End of Blair Era in UK: Corbyn’s Left-Wing Policies win at Ballot Box

TeleSur | - - Labour leader's former foes give credit to his campaign platform. His years of being considered an outsider who didn't understand the British electorate now appear to be behind…

UK hung Parliament: Is Trumpism pushing Europe Left?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As of very early Friday morning, it looks as though the election in the UK has produced a hung parliament, with the Conservative…

Top 10 Ways Americans judge Trump in the Comey Covfefe

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On the eve of former FBI director James Comey's testimony, Trump seems to be tanking in the polls, and his firing Comey seems…

How Trump Used the London Attacks to Further His Agenda (Cole Rising Up Interview)

Rising Up with Sonali | Sonali Kolhatkar | (Audio and Video Interview) | "Just days before the UK elections, US president Donald Trump has wielded his Twitter account as a weapon once…

London Mayor Sadiq Khan uninvites Trump as opposed to Humane British Values

By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | - - Trump's shameful and out of context attacks on Sadiq Khan, the popular mayor of London, have only reminded us of what a boor…

How Trump should have responded to London Attacks if he were Normal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/ Mar-a-Lago Florida (Golf Course) Dear Prime Minister May and Mayor Khan: I was devastated to learn that…

The Jeremy Corbyn response to Trump, May and Terror you won’t see on Corporate News

Jeremy Corbyn | (Video Clip) | - - Jeremy Corbyn | Terrorist Attack in London | criticism of May and Trump

Germany: We Europeans must Depend on Selves, not Trump’s USA

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, certainly knew what she was doing when she made her otherwise cautious statement. "The times," she said,…