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Pope Leo XIV Demands Gaza Ceasefire, as Israeli Tank Crew Shells Church, Kills 3 Women
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Pope Leo XIV Demands Gaza Ceasefire, as Israeli Tank Crew Shells Church, Kills 3 Women

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that an Israeli tank crew fired on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, […]

Tunisia’s Slow Unraveling: From Arab Spring Beacon to Police State

Tunisia’s Slow Unraveling: From Arab Spring Beacon to Police State

07/18/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Atomic Nightmare: Remember Los Alamos

Atomic Nightmare: Remember Los Alamos

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60 Minutes goes Benghazi on Cleantech & Gets that Wrong Too

60 Minutes goes Benghazi on Cleantech & Gets that Wrong Too

(By Joe Romm) 60 Minutes Ignores The Facts In Clean Energy Segment (via Clean Technica) Originally published on ClimateProgressby Joe Romm Clean technology is booming […]

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Iraq
Iraq's Real Problem:  A US Occupation legacy of Sectarian Politics

Iraq’s Real Problem: A US Occupation legacy of Sectarian Politics

(By Mohammed Alomari) Violence in Iraq is again in the news. The biggest problem we face about what is going on in Iraq is the […]

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Dissent
How Egypt's Revolution veered toward Authoritarian Crackdown

How Egypt’s Revolution veered toward Authoritarian Crackdown

(By Mohammed Fadel) In response to a December 24 bombing in the town of Mansoura, the Egyptian government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. […]

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Afghanistan
Gatesgate: Why Obama was right to Distrust his Generals on Afghanistan

Gatesgate: Why Obama was right to Distrust his Generals on Afghanistan

(By Juan Cole) Among the charges in former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s memoirs against Barack Obama is that the latter did not trust his […]

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Caleb Jacoby, teenage son of Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, is missing

Caleb Jacoby, teenage son of Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, is missing

MassLive: Teen missing since Monday afternoon

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Bush
About that Country you Destroyed:  A Letter to George W. Bush

About that Country you Destroyed: A Letter to George W. Bush

(By Ralph Nader) George W. Bush Presidential Center PO Box 560887 Dallas, Texas, 57356 Dear Mr. Bush: A few days ago I received a personalized […]

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Climate Change
Daily Show on Global Warming Confusion (Video of the Day)

Daily Show on Global Warming Confusion (Video of the Day)

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show reviews the silly things climate change denialists are saying about the cold snap, inasmuch as they confuse weather events […]

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science
Franken-GOP (Cartoon of the Day)

Franken-GOP (Cartoon of the Day)

(By Paul Jamiol) Courtesy Paul Jamiol, Jamiol’s World

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Christianity
Tripoli Residents Protest as 80,000 Rare Books in Lebanon Torched by Salafis

Tripoli Residents Protest as 80,000 Rare Books in Lebanon Torched by Salafis

(AFP) Angry Lebanese protest over attack on priest’s library (via AFP) Hundreds of Lebanese took to the streets of the northern city of Tripoli on […]

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