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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

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A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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No, Baghdad isn't about to Fall:  Iraqi Bloggers & Youth Mount Campaign

No, Baghdad isn’t about to Fall: Iraqi Bloggers & Youth Mount Campaign

By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | via Niqash A group of young Iraqi bloggers and activists have started a campaign on social media using the […]

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Turkey allows Kurdish Peshmerga to Cross to Kobane

Turkey allows Kurdish Peshmerga to Cross to Kobane

By Juan Cole The Turkish press is reporting that Turkish intelligence is facilitating the crossing of a couple hundred paramilitary troops (Peshmerga) from Iraqi Kurdistan […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Only 1/2 of 1% of "Patriot" Act Secret Warrants Used against Terrorism

Only 1/2 of 1% of “Patriot” Act Secret Warrants Used against Terrorism

By Mark Jaycox via Electronic Frontier Foundation The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot […]

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Barack Obama
Nobel Peace Laureates to Obama:  Bring use of torture into the light of day, Never to return

Nobel Peace Laureates to Obama: Bring use of torture into the light of day, Never to return

By Jon Queally via Commondreams.org Twelve Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written to President Barack Obama asking the US to close the dark chapter on […]

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Bahrain
Artificial Billionaires:   Regimes' Crony Capitalism Stifling Middle East

Artificial Billionaires: Regimes’ Crony Capitalism Stifling Middle East

World Bank Across the Middle East and North Africa, countries are being forced to face up to a harsh reality—that, left as they are now, […]

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censorship
Egypt's War on NGOs:  23 Youth sentenced to 3 Years Hard Labor for Peaceful Protests

Egypt’s War on NGOs: 23 Youth sentenced to 3 Years Hard Labor for Peaceful Protests

Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – A Cairo court of minor offenses handed down three-year sentences to 23 people for breaking an anti-protest law that allows […]

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Counter-Terrorism
Iraq:  Is the Sunni-Shiite Slaughter at  Jurf al-Sakhr really a US Victory?

Iraq: Is the Sunni-Shiite Slaughter at Jurf al-Sakhr really a US Victory?

By Juan Cole Apparent good news was announced on Sunday in the fight against the extremist ISIL organization: The Iraqi army, backed by fundamentalist Shiite […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Israeli restrictions on movement strangle Palestinian life

Israeli restrictions on movement strangle Palestinian life

By Daoud Kuttab “My homeland is not a suitcase and I am not a traveler,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. But for many Palestinians living […]

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Burned:  Valerie Plame Wilson's new  Roman a Clef on Dick Cheney's Great Betrayal

Burned: Valerie Plame Wilson’s new Roman a Clef on Dick Cheney’s Great Betrayal

Bloomberg “Valerie Plame Wilson, author and former CIA officer, discusses her new book entitled “Burned” and national security in the 21st century with Bloomberg’s Pimm […]

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