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Archives for November 2017

Iraq
The Fall of the House of ISIL: Reduced from State to Random Terror

The Fall of the House of ISIL: Reduced from State to Random Terror

contributors

ISIL or ISIS has collapsed as a state and its fighters face looming defeat

al-Qaeda
CIA Cache: Bin Laden loved watching ‘Resident Evil’

CIA Cache: Bin Laden loved watching ‘Resident Evil’

contributors

Also: Evidence Iran tried to use terrorist mastermind of al-Qaeda

Colonialism
Israeli forces suppress protests marking Balfour Declaration centenary

Israeli forces suppress protests marking Balfour Declaration centenary

contributors

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, the 1917 document which supported establishing a Jewish state on what would become British Mandate Palestine, and paved the what for the to […]

Featured
Dear John Kelly: Yes, Slavery was wrong in 1860s & Muslims helped Convince Americans to end It

Dear John Kelly: Yes, Slavery was wrong in 1860s & Muslims helped Convince Americans to end It

Juan Cole

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 the arguments he made was for historical relativism: ““I think we make a mistake, though, and as a society and certainly as, as […]

Corruption
How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?

How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?

contributors

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 the first legal maneuvers in the case. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates surrendered to U.S. District […]

Bill of Rights
Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?

Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?

contributors

Anti-BDS Legislation backed by Israel Lobbies threatens Americans’ Freedom of Speech

al-Qaeda
Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?

Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?

Juan Cole

The ‘War on Terror’ is destroying Democracy

Slavery and Trafficking
That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery

That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised classroom version Some observers imply that in 1861, most people in the world believed in slavery and so you can’t blame the American South for retaining it. This premise is not true. For one thing, a majority of American states had abolished slavery. Ohio did […]

Donald Trump
No Compromise: Let’s not forget Kelly’s ‘Empty Barrel’ Smear

No Compromise: Let’s not forget Kelly’s ‘Empty Barrel’ Smear

Juan Cole

Kelly seems not to think enslaving people of African Heritage was Always Wrong

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