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Q & A w/ Juan Cole on “The New Arabs”: If Elders in Mideast Can’t Get it Done, will the Youth?
by *JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary Column » By the Book “Many Palestinians see the Israelis as aggressive colonizers of Palestinian […]
Top 5 Ways the US is Israel’s Accomplice in War Crimes in Gaza
By Juan Cole The US State Department became a little testy with Israel on Sunday over the 6th school shelling by the Israeli military, which […]
When will the Madness Stop? Inside the Collapsing Hospitals of Gaza
Channel 4 News: “Paul Mason meets some of the victims of the latest shelling in Gaza, including a two-year-old child, as the outside of a […]
Israel’s Repeated Bombing of Schools and Schoolchildren Is a War Crime & Should be Punished
By Alan Smith, University of Ulster The shelling of Jabalia Elementary Girls’ School in Gaza on July 30 by Israeli forces was a shocking example […]
Are the 17 Intel Agencies now the Fourth Branch of Government?
By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com The Fourth Branch The Rise to Power of the National Security State By Tom Engelhardt As every schoolchild knows, there […]
The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State
By Jonathan Weiler Since virtually every comment on Hamas in American media includes the assertion that the group’s Charter rejects Israel’s right to exist, it’s […]
Iran’s elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back ISIS
In early July, hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kamal Shirkhani in Lavasan, a small town northeast of Tehran.
Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class
By Cathy Stripe Lester On August 5, Michigan taxpayers will be asked to vote on Proposition 1, which is being presented in commercials as a […]
Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private? The Police Don’t
By Hanni Fakhoury via EFF The Fourth Amendment protects us from “unreasonable” government searches of our persons, houses, papers and effects. How courts should determine […]