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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

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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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"It's all Right to Make Fun of the Government": Bassem Youssef (Egypt's Jon Stewart)

“It’s all Right to Make Fun of the Government”: Bassem Youssef (Egypt’s Jon Stewart)

Bassem Youssef: “It’s OK to make fun of ourselves” “BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman talks to Bassem Youssef, also known as the “Egyptian Jon Stewart”, about […]

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Top 5 US Government Decisions that put Troops more at Risk than Snowden Did

Top 5 US Government Decisions that put Troops more at Risk than Snowden Did

(By Juan Cole) The propaganda wars in Washington continue over Edward Snowden’s revelation that the National Security Agency and other Federal government departments have in […]

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Anti-Arab graffiti scrawled in West Bank village

Anti-Arab graffiti scrawled in West Bank village

Latest price tag attack appears to be revenge for beating of settlers near Esh Kodesh earlier in the week

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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'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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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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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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