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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
Donald Trump

Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

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Christianity
Israeli forces suppress Christmas march in Bethlehem

Israeli forces suppress Christmas march in Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Tuesday suppressed a peaceful march calling for “Christmas without occupation” in Bethlehem. Demonstrators marched to the Israeli military checkpoint […]

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Iraq
Reality TV Iraq Style:  Confronting your Terrorist

Reality TV Iraq Style: Confronting your Terrorist

AJ+ | — “It’s reality TV like you’ve never seen it before: Iraqi terrorists being escorted around their crime scenes, meeting their victims and confessing […]

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Climate Change
Year 6 of the Climate Activism Revolution

Year 6 of the Climate Activism Revolution

By Rebecca Solnit | (Tomdispatch.com) It was the most thrilling bureaucratic document I’ve ever seen for just one reason: it was dated the 21st day […]

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Bill of Rights
Is the NSA Responsible for N. Korea's Hack of Sony Pictures?

Is the NSA Responsible for N. Korea’s Hack of Sony Pictures?

By Juan Cole | — In all the discussions of what is alleged to be North Korea’s horrible cyber-vandalism against Sony Pictures, I haven’t seen […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Victim of Apartheid Wall:  Christmas in Isolated Bethlehem

Victim of Apartheid Wall: Christmas in Isolated Bethlehem

DW | — “Bethlehem – the traditional birthplace of Jesus is sacred for many believers. But it means big business for Palestinians who sell souvenirs […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
3000 Yezidi Girls still Missing at Hands of Daesh/ISIL: "It costs more for a girl with blue eyes"

3000 Yezidi Girls still Missing at Hands of Daesh/ISIL: “It costs more for a girl with blue eyes”

BBC News | — “Kurdish authorities say Pershmerga forces are making headway in the Northern Iraqi town of Sinjar and have taken control of a […]

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Islam
Not the Onion: Pakistanis Demand arrest of Cleric for not Condemning "Jihadis"

Not the Onion: Pakistanis Demand arrest of Cleric for not Condemning “Jihadis”

AJ+ |– “Pakistanis are calling for the arrest of a Muslim cleric, Abdul Aziz, who refused to condemn the recent Pakistan Attack that led to […]

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Iraq
The Yezidis:  People of an Ancient Faith Battle Ethnic Cleansing

The Yezidis: People of an Ancient Faith Battle Ethnic Cleansing

By Richard Foltz | (Special to Informed Comment) — Among the many victims of the barbarous Daesh (what Arabs call ISIS or ISIL), none has […]

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Democracy
Tunisia:  Nationalist Candidate's claimed win in Presidential Poll Contested

Tunisia: Nationalist Candidate’s claimed win in Presidential Poll Contested

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — The major political parties do fairly sophisticated exit polling in Tunisian elections now, and secular, nationalist warhorse Beji […]

Juan Cole

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