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Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
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Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership

Norman Solomon

The last 12 months have shown that Trump’s party is bent on inflicting vast cruelty while aiming to crush democracy and the rule of law

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Greenland Defense Front – The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)

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Iran’s Universities Have long been Students’ Battleground for the Future

Iran’s Universities Have long been Students’ Battleground for the Future

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By RFE/RL White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the United States is “at war with ISIL” on September 12, after Secretary of State John […]

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The Plutocracy Strikes Back: The Pathologies of Rule by a Handful of Billionaires

By Steve Fraser via Tomdispatch.com George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century.  Amid a violent and […]

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The Death of Palestine:  Israeli Ambition and Palestinian Weakness

The Death of Palestine: Israeli Ambition and Palestinian Weakness

By Tareq Ramadan Given the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations alongside the current policies of the Netanyahu administration, the recent Gaza episode can be viewed, in […]

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Middle East "Allies" decline to Commit Forces, Resources against ISIL

Middle East “Allies” decline to Commit Forces, Resources against ISIL

By Juan Cole US Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting in Jedda with ten Middle Eastern foreign ministers produced a communique on Friday, but little […]

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President Erdoğan to participate in key TÜSİAD meeting

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will join a meeting hosted by Turkey’s top business group next week, in a possible sign of improved relations with the […]

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Arabs without God

By Brian Whitaker, author of Arabs without God In the midst of sectarian turmoil in the Middle East, one section of Arab society rarely gets […]

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The Israeli version of Steven Salaita:  Occupation University fires Professor for Insufficient Zionism

The Israeli version of Steven Salaita: Occupation University fires Professor for Insufficient Zionism

By Amir Hetsroni This is how I became the Israeli version of Steven Salaita:   I was teaching at Ariel University when administrators summoned me to […]

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How the Gaza War Backfired on Netanyahu

How the Gaza War Backfired on Netanyahu

By Ramzy Baroud (Maan News Agency) Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly — his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried […]

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Russia denounces Obama Plan for Syria Air Strikes as Violation of Int'l Law

Russia denounces Obama Plan for Syria Air Strikes as Violation of Int’l Law

By Juan Cole Russia on Thursday pushed back against President Obama’s state plans for taking on the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant […]

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