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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
Bill of Rights

An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?

Mitchell Zimmerman

Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

01/28/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

01/28/2026 By Andrea Mazzarino

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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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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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Civil Rights
Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections?

Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections?

CCTV “In the United States, the gap between rich and poor is the highest it has been since 1928. This gap is painfully obvious in […]

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African-Americans
Was Sen. Lindsey Graham just Joking when he Supported White Men in Male Only Clubs?

Was Sen. Lindsey Graham just Joking when he Supported White Men in Male Only Clubs?

The Young Turks: “”In a statement, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tried to play off a joke he made at a private, all-male dinner as totally […]

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