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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing
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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Dan Steinbock

As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

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Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

11/15/2025 By Richard Drake

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

11/15/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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Arab Spring
Dear Arab Liberals:  The Enemies of your Enemies aren't Necessarily your Friends

Dear Arab Liberals: The Enemies of your Enemies aren’t Necessarily your Friends

(By Karim Emile Bitar) One of the principal reasons the revolutionary impulse unleashed in 2010 proved so inspiring was that it finally gave full voice […]

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Islam
Crimean Tatars fear Russian Rule

Crimean Tatars fear Russian Rule

Crimean Tatars fear a future under Russia (via GlobalPost) BAKHCHYSARAI, Ukraine — Crimean Tatars know a few things about oppression. In the past two or […]

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Free Syrian Army
Syria:  Kurdish Women Soldiers take on Extremist Jihadis

Syria: Kurdish Women Soldiers take on Extremist Jihadis

DW writes, “According to the United Nations, more than 100,000 people have died in the civil war in Syria so far. The real number of […]

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Politics&Culture
What Ukraine Means to the U.S. 1% and to the 99%  (Editorial Cartoon)

What Ukraine Means to the U.S. 1% and to the 99% (Editorial Cartoon)

(By Paul Jamiol) Courtesy Jamiol’s World

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A Russo-Iranian Bloc against the United States?

A Russo-Iranian Bloc against the United States?

(By Juan Cole) Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Thursday, according to PressTV. The Russian press added that “A Kremlin […]

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Climate Change
Climate Change Is Increasing Extreme Heat Globally

Climate Change Is Increasing Extreme Heat Globally

By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn Despite reports of a global warming “hiatus,” a new study shows that the number of areas being affected by extreme heat are on the rise and that the hottest temperatures on the planet are also increasing. The idea of a …

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Politics&Culture
The US isn't a Police State, but it is a Managed Democracy

The US isn’t a Police State, but it is a Managed Democracy

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com —— Related video: TheRealNews: “Obama Expands Militarization of Police” )

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Turkey
The Theater of Conspiracy in the Run-up to Turkey’s Elections

The Theater of Conspiracy in the Run-up to Turkey’s Elections

(By Erdağ Göknar) The novel Snow by Nobel-prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk exposes the logic of Middle Eastern nationalism. Not surprisingly, political conspiracy has a […]

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Tens of Thousands in Turkey Protest Tyranny of the Majority

Tens of Thousands in Turkey Protest Tyranny of the Majority

(By Juan Cole) Tens of thousands of Turks demonstrated in Istanbul and other cities on Wednesday coming off the funeral of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan. Elvan […]

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