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Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates
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Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates

Juan Cole

A bloc is attempting to deep-six the pledge made at COP28 to “transition away from fossil fuels.”

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Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

Protesting Canada’s Detention of Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk over Palestine Rights Advocacy

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Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

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Religion and the Fight over Public Space in Egypt

Religion and the Fight over Public Space in Egypt

By Marwa Fikry Abdel Samei | Cairo (Special to Informed Comment) “Have you pronounced blessings on the Prophet today?” These words alarmed the Egyptian regime […]

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Hardliners in Israel & Iran Resist US Pivot to Iran over ISIS

Hardliners in Israel & Iran Resist US Pivot to Iran over ISIS

By Juan Cole The continued advances of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) on Sunday brought the radical Sunni movement to […]

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Afghanistan and the Artificial US War on Terror (Anand Gopal’s New Book)

Afghanistan and the Artificial US War on Terror (Anand Gopal’s New Book)

By Juan Cole I guest-hosted a book salon over at Firedoglake on Sunday concentrating on Anand Gopal’s expose of the so-called ‘war on terror’ in […]

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Circumcision ceremony at Eskişehir archeology museum stirs controversy

Circumcision ceremony at Eskişehir archeology museum stirs controversy

A circumcision ceremony held in the midst of ancient monuments at the ETİ Archeology Museum stirs controversy

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Apartheid
 Israel Threatens Witnesses to its Killings of Palestinians, and it Must Stop

Israel Threatens Witnesses to its Killings of Palestinians, and it Must Stop

Via Human Rights Watch Israeli Army targets Man Whose Cameras Recorded Deaths Israel should be investigating these deaths, but instead its forces seem intent on […]

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BDS Occupied Territories
In American Turning Point re: Settler Zionism, Presbyterians Divest

In American Turning Point re: Settler Zionism, Presbyterians Divest

By Andrea Germanos "Divestment is not the end, it’s the beginning of non-violent means to fight the oppression of our Palestinian brothers and sisters," said […]

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Climate Change
Koch Bros. Laguna Beach Black Sabbath targets Green Energy Activists with Greenbacks

Koch Bros. Laguna Beach Black Sabbath targets Green Energy Activists with Greenbacks

Via Sourcewatch and The Young Turks: Anti-Regulation Energy Initiative At a secretive summit held in June 2014 at a resort in Laguna Beach, California, the […]

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Neo-Zangid State erases Syria-Iraq Border, cuts Hizbullah off from Iran

Neo-Zangid State erases Syria-Iraq Border, cuts Hizbullah off from Iran

By Juan Cole With the alleged fall to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria of Qa’im on Saturday, and of Talafar a few days […]

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Christianity
Inside Mosul: ISIS fears Popular Uprising; Baathists cry Foul

Inside Mosul: ISIS fears Popular Uprising; Baathists cry Foul

By a Special Correspondent via Niqash.org NIQASH’s correspondent takes a walk around Mosul to see how the city has changed since extremists took it over […]

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