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Trump, at War with a Shiite Country, knows nothing of Martyrdom or Apocalyptic Hope
Donald Trump

Trump, at War with a Shiite Country, knows nothing of Martyrdom or Apocalyptic Hope

Juan Cole

To the packed crowd, he described Khamenei as a martyr, a spiritual guide, and the physician for pain.

Warriors and Soldiers and the War in Iran

Warriors and Soldiers and the War in Iran

03/07/2026 By Arnold Oliver

As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint

As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint

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Americans ask Pres. Obama to show Thanksgiving Mercy to Gaza

Americans ask Pres. Obama to show Thanksgiving Mercy to Gaza

PressTV | — “President Obama pardoned two turkeys at the White House today, a tradition meant to illustrate the generosity and compassion of the Thanksgiving […]

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Can the Police Phone-Track you without a Warrant?

Can the Police Phone-Track you without a Warrant?

Hanni Fakhoury and Jennifer Lynch (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Once again, a federal court will decide whether police can track your movements over an extended period […]

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

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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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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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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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