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Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus

Juan Cole

An Israeli police statement blamed the demonstrators, saying that they had disturbed the peace, closed off streets, damaged buses

With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

With Maduro Abduction, the US Addiction to Regime Change is now farcical

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Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

Trump’s War on Women: Bodies, Roles, and Futures at Risk

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On D-Day:  Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis

On D-Day: Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis

By Juan Cole One of the frustrations for a world historian is the unyieldingly parochial vision of the North Atlantic common among journalists and even […]

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Facial Hair, Patriotism and the Enemy in American History

Facial Hair, Patriotism and the Enemy in American History

By Juan Cole Media Matters for America put together a collage of Fox Cable News commentators smearing the father of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl as having […]

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Asia
Tiananmen still Under Lockdown after all These Years

Tiananmen still Under Lockdown after all These Years

By Philip Cunningham I approached the Square from Qianmen which back in the old days of the Qing Dynasty was the traditional gate into the […]

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Climate Change, Economic Inequality Are One Debate, says Sen. Warren

Climate Change, Economic Inequality Are One Debate, says Sen. Warren

By Jon Queally Both issues show clearly that ‘we have a rigged system, where a handful are able to reap benefits at the cost of […]

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Apartheid
US support for Palestinian Gov't a 'Knife in the Back' says Israel, after Sabotaging Kerry Talks

US support for Palestinian Gov’t a ‘Knife in the Back’ says Israel, after Sabotaging Kerry Talks

Israel decries US ‘knife in back’ over Palestinian govt (via AFP) Washington’s support for a new Palestinian government backed by Israel’s Islamist foe Hamas, has […]

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Barack Obama
Another Pivot:  Can Obama’s New CO2 Rules Break Our Stalemate With China?

Another Pivot: Can Obama’s New CO2 Rules Break Our Stalemate With China?

There’s going to be a long fight over the Obama administration’s new carbon emissions caps, and it’s just getting started. But today brings encouraging news from beyond our borders: As if on cue, the world’s biggest polluter, China, announced…

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Turkey's Erdogan Calls CNN Reporter arrested on air "Lackey," "Agent of Chaos"

Turkey’s Erdogan Calls CNN Reporter arrested on air “Lackey,” “Agent of Chaos”

Turkey PM accuses international media of spying, singles out CNN (via AFP) Turkey’s embattled prime minister lashed out at international media on Tuesday, accusing news […]

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Economy
9 Questions about the 1%, the Unemployed and why the one produces the Other

9 Questions about the 1%, the Unemployed and why the one produces the Other

By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch Last year eight Americans — the four Waltons of Walmart fame, the two Koch brothers, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett — […]

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Barack Obama
Is the Prisoner Swap Hysteria a sign of GOP War withdrawal Symptoms?

Is the Prisoner Swap Hysteria a sign of GOP War withdrawal Symptoms?

By Juan Cole The United States has been continually at war since October of 2001. In many of the succeeding years, until Dec. 31 2011, […]

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