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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?

Mitchell Zimmerman

Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

01/28/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

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Iraq Famine Threat?   IS Daesh/ ISIL Stealing Wheat, Preventing Farmers from Providing Food?

Iraq Famine Threat? IS Daesh/ ISIL Stealing Wheat, Preventing Farmers from Providing Food?

JURF-AL-SAKHAR/DUBAI (IRIN) | — November is usually a busy month for farmers in the Iraqi town of Jurf al-Sakhar as they sow their seeds ahead […]

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Apartheid
How Israel's Bus Segregation Affects Palestinian Workers

How Israel’s Bus Segregation Affects Palestinian Workers

AJ+ | — ‘Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has argued for keeping Palestinian workers off of public Israeli buses. Yaalon says the laborers are dangerous […]

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Climate Change
Thanksgiving was always about Climate and Adaptation: Let’s Make it Green Again

Thanksgiving was always about Climate and Adaptation: Let’s Make it Green Again

By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a […]

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nationalism
Turkish Pres. Erdogan says Women not Equal to Men: "Their System is Different."

Turkish Pres. Erdogan says Women not Equal to Men: “Their System is Different.”

Euronews | — “The Turkish President has triggered fresh controversy, declaring in a speech that women are not equal to men. Recep Tayyip Erdogan also […]

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Afghanistan
What if it was Russia and China invading and Bombing?  The Blindness of MSM and Washington

What if it was Russia and China invading and Bombing? The Blindness of MSM and Washington

By Tom Engelhardt (Tomdispatch.com) | — Let’s play a game, the kind that makes no sense on this single-superpower planet of ours. For a moment, […]

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Climate Change
Global Warming brings extreme Floods and Drought:  World Bank

Global Warming brings extreme Floods and Drought: World Bank

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer (Commondreams.org) “Even very ambitious mitigation” can’t change the fact that the world has already “locked in” mid-century warming of 1.5°C […]

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African-Americans
Racial Fearmongering and Ferguson:  US Stereotype of "violent" African-American Men as old as Slavery

Racial Fearmongering and Ferguson: US Stereotype of “violent” African-American Men as old as Slavery

By Peter Bloom, The Open University (The Conversation) The decision not to charge police officer Darren Wilson with the unlawful shooting of unarmed teen Michael […]

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African-Americans
Race inequality between US Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers (Again)

Race inequality between US Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers (Again)

By Juan Cole | — With regard to employment, African-Americans got hit harder by the Bush Depression than did whites, and jobs have not come […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran:  US War Hawks go on Offensive after Nuclear Energy Talk Deadlines are Postponed

Iran: US War Hawks go on Offensive after Nuclear Energy Talk Deadlines are Postponed

by Jim Lobe | (Inter Press Service) | — Buoyed by the failure of the U.S. and five other powers to reach a comprehensive agreement […]

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