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Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals
Donald Trump

Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals

Juan Cole

Ironically, the strike was fully supported by the Muslim president of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

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The Gaza Genocide was not a One-Off: The Blueprint is There to be Repeated

The Gaza Genocide was not a One-Off: The Blueprint is There to be Repeated

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The Real Threat: U.S. Spending to Combat Climate Change has been Swallowed by the Pentagon

The Real Threat: U.S. Spending to Combat Climate Change has been Swallowed by the Pentagon

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Is it ISIS?  French, Saudi Suicide Bombers Target Beirut

Is it ISIS? French, Saudi Suicide Bombers Target Beirut

Via al-Akhbar English: A suicide bomber blew himself up as security forces raided his hotel room in Beirut’s Raouche district Wednesday evening, injuring at least […]

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Iraq
 What Drove Iraqi Sunnis to Revolt and ally with ISIS?

What Drove Iraqi Sunnis to Revolt and ally with ISIS?

By Charles Recknagel via RFE/RL As Sunni insurgents have swept across northern Iraq, they have sought to win support by portraying themselves as the liberators […]

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Barack Obama
Fox's Cavuto slams Bachmann on suing Obama: "There's so much Wrong Here"

Fox’s Cavuto slams Bachmann on suing Obama: “There’s so much Wrong Here”

It’s not often that a FOXNews host takes a Tea Party “darling” like Michelle Bachmann to task for her Obama-Derangement-Syndrome, but that’s exactly what happened […]

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Bill of Rights
Supreme Court Requires Warrants for Cell Searches, But won't Protect Internet Streaming

Supreme Court Requires Warrants for Cell Searches, But won’t Protect Internet Streaming

Via Electronic Frontier Foundation Justices Rule Changing Technology Demands Limits for Police but Requires Permission from TV Broadcasters San Francisco – The U.S. Supreme Court […]

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Iraq's PM al-Maliki Rejects Gov't of Nat'l Unity as Sunnis Demand he step Down

Iraq’s PM al-Maliki Rejects Gov’t of Nat’l Unity as Sunnis Demand he step Down

By Juan Cole Secretary of State John Kerry is an experienced and knowledgeable diplomat, but the difficulty of the situation in the Middle East right […]

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Banking
Elizabeth Warren Crushes Chris Matthews, And A Word On Cement

Elizabeth Warren Crushes Chris Matthews, And A Word On Cement

By Sandy Dechert Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, met more than his match last Thursday when he took on lively freshman Senator Elizabeth Warren […]

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Climate Change
Iraq Crisis: It's the Oil, Stupid!

Iraq Crisis: It’s the Oil, Stupid!

By Michael Schwartz via Tomdispatch Events in Iraq are headline news everywhere, and once again, there is no mention of the issue that underlies much […]

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Republican Party
Cheney’s Blame Game on Iraq:  Mess O’Potamia – 300 (Jon Stewart)

Cheney’s Blame Game on Iraq: Mess O’Potamia – 300 (Jon Stewart)

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show: “The militant group ISIS quickly gains control of much of Iraq, giving Dick Cheney an opportunity to place blame […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Iraq in last Throes as Kurdistan Seeks Independence, Syria & Iran intervene

Iraq in last Throes as Kurdistan Seeks Independence, Syria & Iran intervene

By Juan Cole Former Vice President and unindicted felon Richard Bruce Cheney (they always give the criminals’ names that way, in full) once said that […]

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