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Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability
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Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability

Juan Cole

The thousands of ISIL fighters imprisoned by the Kurds in 14 detention centers had terrorized western and northern Iraq and eastern Syria

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

Illegal Israeli Strikes burn Lebanon’s Orchards, Wildlife Habitat

01/23/2026 By The Conversation

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

Venezuela, the Revival of Regime Change and the Decline of Empire

01/23/2026 By William D. Hartung

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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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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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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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Climate Change
Danish Energy Agency: 100% Renewable Denmark By 2050 Is Possible

Danish Energy Agency: 100% Renewable Denmark By 2050 Is Possible

Originally published on Renew Economy.By Sophie Vorrath A new report by the Danish Energy Agency has found it would be technically possible to construct a secure and reliable national energy system based on 100 per cent renewables by 2050. The report…

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Big Media is Boring us into accepting End of Net Neutrality: John Oliver

Big Media is Boring us into accepting End of Net Neutrality: John Oliver

John Oliver: “Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they’re doing it so boringly that most news outlets […]

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NSA Intercepting Millions of Personal Images for Facial Recognition Tech

NSA Intercepting Millions of Personal Images for Facial Recognition Tech

By Sarah Lazare The National Security Agency is mass collecting facial images through its surveillance programs for use in facial recognition technology, journalists James Risen […]

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Censors
NYT's James Risen risks Jail For Protecting Sources after SC declines to Take Appeal

NYT’s James Risen risks Jail For Protecting Sources after SC declines to Take Appeal

By Trevor Timm: The Supreme Court today rejected New York Times reporter James Risen’s appeal of a 4th Circuit decision that ruled the government can […]

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No Regime? Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef Cancelled b/c "Enormous Pressure"

No Regime? Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef Cancelled b/c “Enormous Pressure”

So, no regime then? Jon Stewart was on al-Barnamag [“The Program”] last year this time and remarked of the then Muslim Brotherhood government’s prosecution of […]

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