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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Juan Cole

Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”

The Power Play President

The Power Play President

01/08/2026 By John Feffer

Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

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Israeli Squatters Sabotage Palestinian Wells in Jordan Valley

Israeli Squatters Sabotage Palestinian Wells in Jordan Valley

JERICHO (Ma’an) — Dozens of Israeli settlers damaged wells belonging to Palestinians in the Khirbet Samra area of the Jordan Valley, a local official said […]

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Iraq
Iraqi Sunnis to ISIL, US Coalition: A Pox on Both your Houses

Iraqi Sunnis to ISIL, US Coalition: A Pox on Both your Houses

Sunni Muslim Militias Decide They Won’t Fight With IS – or The US Alliance By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | via Niqash.org It is clear […]

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Climate Change
"Don't Send these Climate Denying Poll-Cats back to Congress: Send them back to Science Class" - Jesse Ventura

“Don’t Send these Climate Denying Poll-Cats back to Congress: Send them back to Science Class” – Jesse Ventura

Jesse Ventura “Off The Grid” “Don’t send these Poll-cats back to Congress. Send them back to science class!” Today, Jesse Ventura runs down three of […]

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Coal
Top 5 Good News Solar Energy Stories Today

Top 5 Good News Solar Energy Stories Today

1. Morocco has announced that the first of a planned five solar mega-plants will go operational in 2015. The North African country, which is poor […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
If Baghdad & the Kurds are allied against ISIL, why is Baghdad Starving Kurdistan of Money?

If Baghdad & the Kurds are allied against ISIL, why is Baghdad Starving Kurdistan of Money?

From a blogger in the region: Following international media reporting, it is easy to think about war only in terms of uniforms, boots and steel. […]

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Bill of Rights
Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying: Interview with Laura Poitras

Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying: Interview with Laura Poitras

By Tom Engelhardt and Laura Poitras via Tomdispatch.com Here’s a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! stat from our new age of national security. How many […]

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Epidemics
Dear USA:  Liberian-Americans don't Have Ebola

Dear USA: Liberian-Americans don’t Have Ebola

By Philippa Garson (Follow @PhilippaGarson ) NEW YORK, 17 October 2014 (IRIN) – Africans living in the US from the three Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, […]

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Defying Turkey, US airdrops arms to Kobane Kurds

Defying Turkey, US airdrops arms to Kobane Kurds

By Juan Cole In a step that over-ruled America’s Turkish NATO ally, US jets dropped food, first aid and weaponry into the besieged Syrian Kurdish […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
The Kobane Crisis:  Where are Turkey, the PKK and the Kurds Going?

The Kobane Crisis: Where are Turkey, the PKK and the Kurds Going?

By Mustafa Gurbuz For many Kurds, Ankara’s spectator role in Kobane is a systematic policy to weaken PKK to get more leverage in the peace […]

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