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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing
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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Dan Steinbock

As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

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Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

11/15/2025 By Richard Drake

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
A War of another Kind:  Joint US-Yemeni Strikes on al-Qaeda kill 68

A War of another Kind: Joint US-Yemeni Strikes on al-Qaeda kill 68

(via AFP) Dozens killed as Yemen, US mount air war on Qaeda (via AFP) An “unprecedented” US and Yemeni aerial campaign in Yemen killed at […]

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Economy
High Inequality Results in More US Deaths than Tobacco, Car Crashes and Guns Combined

High Inequality Results in More US Deaths than Tobacco, Car Crashes and Guns Combined

In 2009, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a study that revealed what seems to be a shocking truth: those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death. Here in the United States,…

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Books
The Romantics and the Orient: What English Poetry owes to the Middle East

The Romantics and the Orient: What English Poetry owes to the Middle East

(By Samar Attar) Many times I have asked myself how can I concentrate on the British Romantic Poets when people in Syria, the country of […]

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Afghanistan
How Torture became Normalized in America

How Torture became Normalized in America

(By Rebecca Gordon) The US military involvement in Iraq has more or less ended, and the war in Afghanistan is limping to a conclusion. Yet […]

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Africa
Triumph of the Immigrant American Spirit:  Meb Keflezighi and the Boston Marathon

Triumph of the Immigrant American Spirit: Meb Keflezighi and the Boston Marathon

(By Juan Cole) Yesterday Boston responded with its vigorous spirit of community and transcendence to the cowardly terrorism that marred the Boston Marathon in 2013, […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Rebel In-Fighting Endangers Syrian Civilians in their Territory

Rebel In-Fighting Endangers Syrian Civilians in their Territory

(By Issam Abdel Hamid) Ordinary people say their lives are at risk due to disputes between rival rebel groups. Tensions between Syrian rebel forces stationed […]

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History
A People’s History of Muslims in the United States

A People’s History of Muslims in the United States

(By Alison Kysia) When I teach history related to Islam or Muslims in the United States, I begin by asking students what names they associate […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians consider handing 'keys' back to Israel, ending Charade of "Peace Process"

Palestinians consider handing ‘keys’ back to Israel, ending Charade of “Peace Process”

(Via AFP) Palestinians mull handing territory ‘keys’ back to Israel (via AFP) Palestinian negotiators have warned they may pass responsiblity for their territory back to […]

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Constitution
Too Big to Jail?  Why Kidnapping, Torture, Assassination, and Perjury Are No Longer Crimes in Washington

Too Big to Jail? Why Kidnapping, Torture, Assassination, and Perjury Are No Longer Crimes in Washington

(By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com) How the mighty have fallen.  Once known as “Obama’s favorite general,” James Cartwright will soon don a prison uniform and, […]

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