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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied
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How Minnesotans became Palestinians: Top 5 Ways they are Occupied

Juan Cole

Occupied people do not have rights, and they do not even have the right to have rights. They are lesser.

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

Iran’s Protests are not just about Economics, they’re about an Ideological Crisis

01/25/2026 By The Conversation

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

Aid by permission: How Israel’s NGO ban is reshaping life and survival in Gaza

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Onshore Wind Power in Europe now Cheaper than Gas, Coal or Nuclear

Onshore Wind Power in Europe now Cheaper than Gas, Coal or Nuclear

Originally published on Renew Economy. The falling cost of renewables is not news to those who have paid attention to analysis from green-focused think tanks, or groups like Bloomberg New Energy Finance. But it is when a major European utility, with…

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Christianity
Pope Francis in Jordan Reaches out to Forgotten Syrian Refugees, Christians and Muslims

Pope Francis in Jordan Reaches out to Forgotten Syrian Refugees, Christians and Muslims

By Juan Cole AFP Arabic reports that Syrian refugees, and Christian refugees in particular, are hoping that the visit of Pope Francis to Jordan on […]

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Rocket attack wounds 20 in Libya's Benghazi

Rocket attack wounds 20 in Libya's Benghazi

Twenty members of a single family were wounded when a rocket slammed into their home near an army base in Libya’s second city Benghazi overnight, […]

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Sarah Palin: Veterans died waiting for VA care because ‘Barack Obama is lazy’

Sarah Palin: Veterans died waiting for VA care because ‘Barack Obama is lazy’

Fox News contributor and half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said this week that veterans had died waiting for health care from Veterans Affairs facilities because President Barack Obama was “lazy” due to his upbringing. “The problem starts…

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Africa
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See

By Allan Christelow On the night of April 14-15 2014, militants from the group known as Boko Haram broke into the dormitory of a secondary […]

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Bill of Rights
House Passes Fake USA Freedom Act; Only hope is Senate

House Passes Fake USA Freedom Act; Only hope is Senate

As explained earlier, due to pressure from the White House and NSA’s supporters in Congress, what could have been real NSA reform was completely changed at the last minute, in secret. The bill, which was substantially different than what both the Judiciary…

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Climate Change
Shouldn't the "1% Doctrine" Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?

Shouldn’t the “1% Doctrine” Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?

(By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com) Who could forget?  At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of “information” from top figures in […]

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Apartheid
Pope Francis to call for Sovereign, Independent Palestinian State from Bethlehem

Pope Francis to call for Sovereign, Independent Palestinian State from Bethlehem

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin is signaling that Pope Francis in his visit to Bethlehem on Sunday will strongly support the right of […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Anthony Bourdain on Palestinians:  "The World has visited many terrible things on" them, robbed of their Humanity

Anthony Bourdain on Palestinians: “The World has visited many terrible things on” them, robbed of their Humanity

Anthony Bourdain: it is something we do all the time: “Show regular people doing everyday things–cooking and enjoying meals… It is a measure, I guess, […]

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