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Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for  an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies
Donald Trump

Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies

Juan Cole

Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy

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The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

11/19/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

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8 Plutocrats out-earned 3.6 mn Working Poor & 7 Other Headlines You won't see in MSM

8 Plutocrats out-earned 3.6 mn Working Poor & 7 Other Headlines You won’t see in MSM

(By Paul Buchheit) The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the "hard news" stories that the media has a responsibility to report. But the business-oriented […]

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Bill of Rights
Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State

Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State

  The astroturfed pandemic of Christian self-righteousness continues to plumb new depths, proving that like their Bible, there isn’t a part of the Constitution they won’t ignore, twist, or warp, in an effort to shore up their abjectly amoral personal…

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Barack Obama
Uncle Sam's Eternal Gua-Gulag:  US Continues to Imprison Dozens of Yemenis Cleared or Never Charged

Uncle Sam’s Eternal Gua-Gulag: US Continues to Imprison Dozens of Yemenis Cleared or Never Charged

(Human Rights Watch) (Washington, DC) – The US should expedite the return of Yemeni detainees cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights Watch said […]

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Africa
25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

25 Maps That Will Change The Way You See The World

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CIA
US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran's Democratic gov't  (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)

US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran’s Democratic gov’t (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)

The decision of the Obama administration and the resolution passed by Congress barring entry to Iran’s designated ambassador to the United Nations has angered Tehran […]

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Climate Change
Using Ukraine as a Pretext for more Climate Disruption (Naomi Klein)

Using Ukraine as a Pretext for more Climate Disruption (Naomi Klein)

(By Naomi Klein) Published in The Guardian The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so […]

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Constitution
Dropbox putting NSA Spying advocate Condi Rice on its board Shocks Privacy Advocates

Dropbox putting NSA Spying advocate Condi Rice on its board Shocks Privacy Advocates

YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined the board of Dropbox has set tongues a-wagging in the IT sector. The company said Ms Rice be involved in securing a foothold in international territories, particularly…

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Internet
Standing on the Titanic:  Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook

Standing on the Titanic: Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook

(By Kholoud Ramzi, Baghdad, for Niqash) Election posters have become a joke to cynical Iraqi voters. Election campaign posters are telling cynical Iraqi voters nothing […]

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Christians
If Jesus had a wife, would it change the GOP War on Women?

If Jesus had a wife, would it change the GOP War on Women?

(By Juan Cole) A Coptic fragmentary manuscript page that dates back to a few hundred years after Jesus’ death (and the text of which may […]

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