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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives
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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

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How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

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NSA's Zero Day Exploits: Paying $800 mn. to Hackers so they Can Spy on You

NSA’s Zero Day Exploits: Paying $800 mn. to Hackers so they Can Spy on You

(By Pratap Chatterjee via Tomdispatch) Imagine that you could wander unseen through a city, sneaking into houses and offices of your choosing at any time, […]

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al-Qaeda
Daily Show: How much of an A*hole do you have to be that Al-Zawahiri won’t Work with You?

Daily Show: How much of an A*hole do you have to be that Al-Zawahiri won’t Work with You?

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show at Comedy Central covers the fruitless Syria negotiations and break between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and […]

Juan Cole

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Boycott of Israeli Universities by American Studies Assn. being Tried in a Kangaroo Court

Boycott of Israeli Universities by American Studies Assn. being Tried in a Kangaroo Court

(By Alan M. Wald) In Memory of Edward Said (1935-2003) “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there […]

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censorship
Turkey's Ruling Party enacts "Orwellian" Web Censorship

Turkey’s Ruling Party enacts “Orwellian” Web Censorship

(Via AFP) Turkey lawmakers adopt ‘Orwellian’ Internet curbs (via AFP) Turkish MPs late Wednesday adopted new Internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
"In the Seam": Israel Strangles Palestinian Town

“In the Seam”: Israel Strangles Palestinian Town

(By Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch) (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military is severely harming livelihoods in a Palestinian village in the West Bank that […]

Juan Cole

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Congress to CIA:  Provide US Drone Victim Count

Congress to CIA: Provide US Drone Victim Count

(By Alice K. Ross) The CIA director and other intelligence chiefs were urged to increase transparency over covert drone operations by members of the House […]

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Camel Bones and Jerusalem:  Archeology Shows Bible written Late, Full of Errors

Camel Bones and Jerusalem: Archeology Shows Bible written Late, Full of Errors

(By Juan Cole) A new paper by Israeli archeologists Lidar Sapir-Hen and Erez Ben-Yosef, [pdf] posted at the University of Tel Aviv web site , […]

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Climate Change
Iceland: Major Green Energy Breakthrough using Magma for Geothermal

Iceland: Major Green Energy Breakthrough using Magma for Geothermal

(Via CleanTechnica) First Magma-Enhanced Geothermal System In The World Developed In Iceland (via Clean Technica) The first “magma-enhanced” geothermal system in the world — the […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Bush ordered NSA to spy on Germany's  Schroeder over Iraq War Opposition

Bush ordered NSA to spy on Germany’s Schroeder over Iraq War Opposition

(By Juan Cole) The Guardian reports that the George W. Bush administration put German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s personal telephone under surveillance in 2002. Schroeder was […]

Juan Cole

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