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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring

Mohammed Samaana

Israel and its hard line supporters have long relied on weaponizing charges of antisemitism to silence critics

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

The Other Iran, of Joy and Wine: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:40

03/06/2026 By Juan Cole

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

03/06/2026 By Al-Shabaka

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As 2014 declared Warmest Year, Watch where World's CO2 Comes From

As 2014 declared Warmest Year, Watch where World’s CO2 Comes From

Vox | — “A new high-resolution computer model created by NASA shows carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas driving global warming, as you’ve never seen it […]

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Militarization
How the US Nat'l Security State goes on Failing Upward

How the US Nat’l Security State goes on Failing Upward

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) As 2015 begins, let’s take a trip down memory lane.  Imagine that it’s January 1963.  For the last three years, […]

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Education
Tee tomesing, tay tomesing? UK Kindergarten Teachers must report Terrorist Toddlers

Tee tomesing, tay tomesing? UK Kindergarten Teachers must report Terrorist Toddlers

AJ+ | — “The British government wants kindergarten teachers to report their toddlers…for potential extremism. Seriously.” AJ+ “Terrorist Toddlers In The UK? ”

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Whatever Happened to besieged Kurdish City of Kobane, Syria?

Whatever Happened to besieged Kurdish City of Kobane, Syria?

By Juan Cole | — Kurdish forces (including both the local YPG and Peshmerga units from Iraqi Kurdistan), and supported by Free Syrian Army troops […]

Juan Cole

Islam
What Black & White thinking misses about ISIS/Daesh & why it Matters to us All

What Black & White thinking misses about ISIS/Daesh & why it Matters to us All

By Neslihan Çevik | (Daily Sabah) — To combat radicalism, EU countries should avoid considering an increased interest in the origins and nature of Islam […]

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Books
Fearing NSA, Writers in USA and Worldwide Avoiding controversy, keyword Searches

Fearing NSA, Writers in USA and Worldwide Avoiding controversy, keyword Searches

PEN America | “Global Chilling” PEN America writes: “Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers is a new report demonstrating the damaging […]

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Iraq
Saudi General, Border Guards Killed by Daesh/ISIL for not being Fanatical Enough

Saudi General, Border Guards Killed by Daesh/ISIL for not being Fanatical Enough

France24 | — “At 4,30 am 4 men coming from Iraqi territory attacked a border post on the northern frontier of Saudi Arabia. Two of […]

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National Security State
National Shame:  50,000 Homeless Veterans Nationwide

National Shame: 50,000 Homeless Veterans Nationwide

ABC News | — “ABC News’ Bob Woodruff travels the country examining new efforts end homelessness among US veterans.” ABC News: “50,000 Homeless Veterans Nationwide” […]

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Democracy
Iran's Rouhani & Direct Democracy: Wants Referendum to Sidestep Hardliners

Iran’s Rouhani & Direct Democracy: Wants Referendum to Sidestep Hardliners

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — Iran’s system of government is a hybrid. One wing of it consists of a dictatorial theocracy, centered on […]

Juan Cole

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