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The Map: A Palestinian Nation Thwarted & Speaking Truth to Power
By Juan Cole Reprint edn. … As part of my original posting, I mirrored a map of modern Palestinian history that has the virtue of […]
Top 7 Really Disturbing News from Iraq
1. Last Wednesday Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki angrily lashed out at the Kurds, accusing them of harboring the terrorists of the so-called ‘Islamic State.’ Since […]
Gaza’s Children Trapped by Israeli Airstrikes, Naval Bombardment, over 20 Dead
By Sarah Lazare As the human rights crisis grows more acute in this besieged strip, the number of dead and injured children continues to rise […]
NSA Spying: Now It’s Personal
By Eva Galperin and Nadia Kayyali via EFF Imagine that you watched a police officer in your neighborhood stop ten completely ordinary people every day […]
World Council of Churches Endorses Fossil Fuel Divestment
Geneva, Switzerland — The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a fellowship of over 300 churches which represent some 590 million people […]
Escaping Mosul and ISIS Assassination Campaigns
niqash | Special Correspondent | Mosul | Refugees from the Ninawa province, of whihc Mosul is the capital, queue to get into Iraqi Kurdistan. One […]
Israel’s Groundhog Day: Reverse Snowballs and the Horror of Lawn-Mowing
by Juan Cole A horrible video is circulating on social media, of a Palestinian father in Gaza who is bringing a toy to his four […]
Israeli Army: We have been instructed to Hit Hamas Hard
By Robert Naiman The government of Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a new war on Palestinians in Gaza, a war whose purported justifications make George W. […]
American Torturers: We’re all Jack Bauer Now in The 25th Hour
By Rebecca Gordon Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he […]
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