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A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran
Dissent

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran

Fariba Amini

The families had to search for the bodies of their loved ones amongst the many covered coffins in the many morgues or hospitals

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region

Syria: Civilian Protection Lacking in Escalation In NE Kurdish Region

01/26/2026 By Human Rights Watch

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

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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, […]

Juan Cole

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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Epidemics
Ebola's not the First Racial Germ Panic:  The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

Ebola’s not the First Racial Germ Panic: The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

By Dan Dinello The attempt by some GOP politicians to tie the ebola outbreak to immigration issues is nothing new in American or European history. […]

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Democracy
Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)

Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)

Bill Moyers: “Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, […]

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Israel
Fierce Entanglements require Dialogue:  Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in their different stories about the World

Fierce Entanglements require Dialogue: Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in their different stories about the World

By Donald Ellis When I was in Israel for a year on a Fulbright conducting research I interviewed Israelis, Palestinians, and Israeli Arabs. I asked […]

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Bashar al-Assad
US Dilemma in Syria:  Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists

US Dilemma in Syria: Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists

By Juan Cole In a big setback for the Obama administration’s Syria policy, the al-Qaeda affiliate Succor Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) took the town of Deir […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Israel's Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year

Israel’s Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year

World Bank “If businesses and farms were permitted to develop on Area C land, 61 percent of the West Bank, it would add as much […]

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