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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives
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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

01/13/2026 By Human Rights Watch

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

01/13/2026 By The Conversation

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Barack Obama
How a Republican Congress could Entangle the US further in the Middle East

How a Republican Congress could Entangle the US further in the Middle East

By Juan Cole The midterm elections in a president’s second term have historically been a time when the president’s party lost seats in both houses […]

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Iraq
Video: ISIL Pedophiles discuss Buying Minor Sex Slaves

Video: ISIL Pedophiles discuss Buying Minor Sex Slaves

via BReaking News “IS fighters talk about which female slaves to buy and sell ‘A new video has emerged showing IS fighters negotiating prices for […]

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Republican Party
Shocking things a GOP Senate might do to Women's Economic Rights (Reich)

Shocking things a GOP Senate might do to Women’s Economic Rights (Reich)

Moveon.org: “Robert Reich explains how a Republican-controlled Senate would attack women’s rights in what adds up to an economic war on women — the third […]

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Human Rights
Iraq:  Lawless Islamic State Group In Mosul Targets Attorneys, Judges

Iraq: Lawless Islamic State Group In Mosul Targets Attorneys, Judges

Special Correspondent | Mosul | via Niqash When Sunni Muslim extremists took over Mosul in early June, they closed local courts and set up their […]

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Climate Change
Can Big Oil "win ugly" in its "Endless War" on Climate Activists?

Can Big Oil “win ugly” in its “Endless War” on Climate Activists?

by Stephen Leahy (IPS) Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we’re seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events….We […]

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Egypt
Incredible Expanding Cairo (Video)

Incredible Expanding Cairo (Video)

NYU STERN URBANIZATION PROJECT “The expansion of built up urban land in Cairo, 1800 – 2000. Prepared for the NYU Stern Urbanization Project using data […]

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Bashar al-Assad
American Weapons, provided to Syrian rebels, fall into Hands of al-Qaeda

American Weapons, provided to Syrian rebels, fall into Hands of al-Qaeda

By Juan Cole The al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra (the Succor Front) not only took the territory of the moderate Muslim Syria Revolutionaries Front this weekend, […]

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Islam
Can't We all Get Along?   Sunni-Shi'a Commonalities

Can’t We all Get Along? Sunni-Shi’a Commonalities

By Tareq A. Ramadan As we enter the Islamic New Year (1436 AH) and therefore the month of Muharram (one of Islam’s sacred months), many […]

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Islam
The Critical spirit of Islam against the mass insanity of ISIS

The Critical spirit of Islam against the mass insanity of ISIS

By Neslihan Çevik The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), having declared itself a caliphate, is now making a call to all Muslims (especially […]

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