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Dear Sean Hannity: Allahu Akbar is in the Catholic Catechism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sean Hannity manages to combine being sneaky…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sean Hannity manages to combine being sneaky…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - John Kelly's ignorant remarks about the Civil…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The indictment of George Papadopoulos, the foreign…
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Dear Sean Hannity: Allahu Akbar is in the Catholic Catechism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sean Hannity manages to combine being sneaky with being a bully. You think of a bully as maybe too straightforward, someone who hulks…The Fall of the House of ISIL: Reduced from State to Random Terror
John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - ISIL* is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no…CIA Cache: Bin Laden loved watching ‘Resident Evil’
TeleSur | - - The CIA released the confidential materials "in the interest of transparency and to enhance public understanding of al-Qaida." The CIA has released previously secret files seized from Osama…Israeli forces suppress protests marking Balfour Declaration centenary
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Bethlehem city on Wednesday following a march commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration,…Dear John Kelly: Yes, Slavery was wrong in 1860s & Muslims helped Convince Americans to end It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - John Kelly's ignorant remarks about the Civil War and compromise on Laura Ingraham's show have rightly angered a lot of people. One of…How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?
By Rachel Caufield | (The Conversation) | - - Five months into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of cooperation between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, Americans are seeing…Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?
By Ramzy Baroud | (TeleSur) | - - Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the U.S. security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary people from the United…Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Honestly, if there’s an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the U.S. Navy…Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The indictment of George Papadopoulos, the foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign in 2016, for lying to the FBI is the most…Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship
By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | - - When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as “one…How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy
Reprint edn. Update: Reuters reports that "Facebook says 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts" By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter,"…A mid-6th Century (Christian?) proto-Arabic Inscription from N. Arabia Mentioning Al-Ilah
(Politically oriented readers of IC please excuse this reprint of a path-breaking but extremely technical discussion in Arabian religious and linguistic history. It is highly important for the study of the beginnings…Rebuking Trump, IAEA Again Certifies Iran Compliance on Nuclear Deal
Zein Basravi | Al Jazeera English | (Video News Report) | - - "Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was in Tehran on Sunday, his first visit since…What if Russia had Spec Ops on US Canadian Border? US Troops in E. Europe
By Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - “They are very concerned about their adversary next door,” said General Raymond Thomas, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), at a…Widespread theft of Palestinian olive harvest by Israeli Squatters
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Over the past few days, Israeli settlers have reportedly stolen the harvest of hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in the northern occupied West…JFK Files Reveal US Mulled Use of Biological Weapons in Cuba
TeleSur | - - During a top-level meeting, U.S. officials warned against the possibility of it being traced back to the United States. The recently published JFK files have shed further light…Barzani gambled it all and Lost– Kurdistan Pres. ending Career
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani has written a letter to the parliament of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government announcing that he will not run for…Kenya to become the sixth largest producer of geothermal power
KNT Keney | Video News Report | - - "Kenya is set to become the sixth largest producer of geothermal power in the world after it broke ground for the construction of…Reminder: Mueller is investigating *Crimes*; Hence 1st Charges
TeleSur | - - According to reports, a federal grand jury has approved criminal charges in an investigation regarding alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election, though the nature…‘They shot my two daughters in front of me’: Burma’s Rohingya tell heartbreaking stories of loss
By Ronan Lee | (The Conversation) | - - If there’s anything positive about the sprawling Rohingya refugee camps near Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, it’s that the residents – despite their appalling recent…