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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
Donald Trump

Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

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Mr. Kerry:  Why Snowden can’t “Make his Case” in “Our System of Justice”

Mr. Kerry: Why Snowden can’t “Make his Case” in “Our System of Justice”

By Juan Cole Secretary of State John Kerry said that Edward Snowden should “return home and come back here and stand in our system of […]

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Islam
Israeli PM Netanyahu Vows never to Return Occupied E Jerusalem to Palestinian Residents

Israeli PM Netanyahu Vows never to Return Occupied E Jerusalem to Palestinian Residents

On Jerusalem Day Netanyahu vows never to divide the city (via AFP) Tens of thousands of religious Jews waving Israeli flags marched into mainly Arab […]

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Bahrain
US Ally Bahrain's Courts are Corrupt, in service of Injustice

US Ally Bahrain’s Courts are Corrupt, in service of Injustice

Human Rights Watch A police officer in Bahrain who kills a protester in cold blood or beats a detainee to death might face a sentence […]

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Democracy
Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald's Personality

Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald’s Personality

By Barry Eisler via Freedom of the Press Foundation: One of the most fascinating aspects of Glenn Greenwald’s journalism is the way it provokes various […]

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Bush
Bush-Cheney Committed War Crimes: Terrorism Czar

Bush-Cheney Committed War Crimes: Terrorism Czar

Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! has an exclusive interview: ” Exclusive: Bush Committed War Crimes Says Ex-Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke” Excerpt: Amy Goodman: “Do you think […]

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Crime
Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)

Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)

By Juan Cole NBC News’s Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday night. But then Mr. Williams followed it up with a panel […]

Juan Cole

Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews

A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion. Click here for the rest […]

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African-Americans
Maya Angelou: 'Still I Rise' (video)

Maya Angelou: ‘Still I Rise’ (video)

Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86. Maya Angelou reads ‘Still I Rise’

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Climate Change
Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past

Posted on 27 May 2014 by howardlee The link between rapid climate changes and mass extinctions has been strengthened in a recent paper by Jourdan et al in “Geology.” The authors demonstrate that the extraordinarily huge volcanic eruptions of the…

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