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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
Donald Trump

Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

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Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response

Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response

News365 “WASHINGTON — The lead agency tasked with responding to the threat of Ebola both within the United States and abroad has seen its budget […]

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Iraq
Kurdish Forces Under-equipped, Need ground troop Allies:  Peshmerga General

Kurdish Forces Under-equipped, Need ground troop Allies: Peshmerga General

RFE/RL In an interview with Samira Ali Mandee of RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq, General Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the Peshmerga Ministry of Iraq’s Kurdish region, […]

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Climate Change
Beyond Antarctica:  3-Foot Sea Level Rise from Melting Alaskan, Other Glaciers Alone

Beyond Antarctica: 3-Foot Sea Level Rise from Melting Alaskan, Other Glaciers Alone

NSF: “Tighten your seat belt! This runway is made of ice. Welcome to the Ruth Glacier, deep inside Alaska’s Denali National Park. Many of the […]

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ISIL Still Taking Towns in Iraq's Al-Anbar as Coalition Airstrikes are Delayed

ISIL Still Taking Towns in Iraq’s Al-Anbar as Coalition Airstrikes are Delayed

By Juan Cole The pan-Arab London daily Al-Hayat [Life] reports today that ISIL is still expanding its sway in towns in Iraq’s western al-Anbar Province, […]

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Apartheid
Defying US, Sweden to Recognize Palestine (First in Western Europe)

Defying US, Sweden to Recognize Palestine (First in Western Europe)

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The prime minister of the Kingdom of Sweden on Friday said that the country would recognize the State of Palestine, becoming the […]

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Islam-hatred
How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get about Muslims with Reza Aslan? THIS STUPID.

How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get about Muslims with Reza Aslan? THIS STUPID.

Sam Seder “Watch as Reza Aslan schools CNN anchors and Bill Maher on their Islamophobia…” Sam Seder: “How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get? THIS STUPID”

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Economy
Expansion of Morocco’s Largest Solar Complex to Provide 1.1 Million Moroccans with Clean Energy

Expansion of Morocco’s Largest Solar Complex to Provide 1.1 Million Moroccans with Clean Energy

World Bank WASHINGTON, September 30, 2014­ – The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$519 million project to support Morocco’s ongoing […]

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The Alamo of the Kurds:  Kobane Near Falling to ISIL

The Alamo of the Kurds: Kobane Near Falling to ISIL

By Juan Cole Ismat Sheikh, commander of the Kurdish forces at the border town of Kobane (Ain al-Arab) that is besieged by ISIL tanks and […]

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Climate Change
35,000 Walruses Can't be Wrong about Climate Change:  Crowd beach b/c "extreme retreat of sea ice"

35,000 Walruses Can’t be Wrong about Climate Change: Crowd beach b/c “extreme retreat of sea ice”

ODN/ ITN “Photographed on Saturday, images were taken of at least 35,000 walruses who beached themselves on a remote Alaskan coastline. The huge gathering was […]

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