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Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas
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Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

Dan Dinello

US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again — the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage

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Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

12/11/2025 By Middle East Monitor

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

12/11/2025 By The Conversation

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Iraq Shocker:  Sunni Tribe invites Shiite Militias into al-Anbar to fend off ISIL Massacres

Iraq Shocker: Sunni Tribe invites Shiite Militias into al-Anbar to fend off ISIL Massacres

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | via Niqash.org — Shiite militias are making inroads into the mainly Sunni province of Anbar. Previously Anbar’s Sunni tribes […]

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Daesh (ISIL) Loses Refinery City in Iraq to Iraqi Army, Shiite Militias

Daesh (ISIL) Loses Refinery City in Iraq to Iraqi Army, Shiite Militias

By Juan Cole | — Iraqi army and police joined forces with Shiite militias and US close air support to expel Daesh (ISIL) from the […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
Gen Dempsey:  US Considering Ground Troops in Iraq

Gen Dempsey: US Considering Ground Troops in Iraq

VOA | — “America’s top military leader says he is considering deploying a limited number of U.S soldiers to fight with Iraqi troops against Islamic […]

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Buddhism
Militant Buddhist Monks stir attacks on innocent Muslims in Myanmar

Militant Buddhist Monks stir attacks on innocent Muslims in Myanmar

AJ+ “Buddhist monks were a symbol of hope and defiance during the dark years of Myanmar’s military dictatorship. But as the country opens up to […]

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Afghanistan
Climate Change:  Afghanistan on Front Line (& You Thought the Taliban were Bad)

Climate Change: Afghanistan on Front Line (& You Thought the Taliban were Bad)

By Joe Dyke (IRIN) MAZAR-I-SHARIF, November 2014 (IRIN) – In northern Afghanistan, the residents don’t often use the phrase – most don’t even know it. […]

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Christianity
The Real Jesus was Bill O'Reilly's Worst Nightmare - Reza Aslan

The Real Jesus was Bill O’Reilly’s Worst Nightmare – Reza Aslan

Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) “The Jesus of history was the exact opposite of everything Fox News host Bill O’Reilly thinks, according to religious scholar […]

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Daesh/ ISIL calls for Terror attacks on Saudi Arabia

Daesh/ ISIL calls for Terror attacks on Saudi Arabia

By Juan Cole | — Daesh, the brutal terrorist group the US calls ISIL or ISIS, is calling for attacks in Saudi Arabia. A voice […]

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Drones
Stealth Drone Proliferation:  Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone

Stealth Drone Proliferation: Iranians Reverse engineer captured US Spy Drone

Press TV: | “Iran has released a video showing the test flight of an Iranian-made version of the captured US RQ-170 spy drone. The stealth […]

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Apartheid
Starving Gazans of Protein:  Israeli Navy destroys Palestinian Fishing Boat

Starving Gazans of Protein: Israeli Navy destroys Palestinian Fishing Boat

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — | Israeli naval boats on Wednesday evening fired at and sank a Palestinian fishing boat in the sea off the coast […]

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