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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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Top Ten Climate Change Threats being ignored by your Television News

Top Ten Climate Change Threats being ignored by your Television News

Since many mainstream media outlets in the US are burying the dramatic climate change stories from all around the world, either by not reporting them […]

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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia in Unprecedented Withdrawal from UN Security Council over Syria, Palestine

Saudi Arabia in Unprecedented Withdrawal from UN Security Council over Syria, Palestine

Saudi Arabia mysteriously withdrew, after having campaigned for and won a seat on the UN Security Council. They said it was over Western inaction on […]

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Drones
As Pakistan says US Drones killed 400 Civilians, UN Report Demands US Data (Ross)

As Pakistan says US Drones killed 400 Civilians, UN Report Demands US Data (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: A report by a UN expert urges the US to ‘release its own data on […]

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Top 10 Ways Ted Cruz & the Tea Party Weakened America with Shutdown

Top 10 Ways Ted Cruz & the Tea Party Weakened America with Shutdown

1. The Cruz/Tea Party shut down of the US government cost the US economy $24 billion 2. As a result of the shutdown, fourth quarter […]

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Iraq War
The American Genocide Against Iraq: 4% of Population Dead as result of US sanctions, wars

The American Genocide Against Iraq: 4% of Population Dead as result of US sanctions, wars

A new household survey of Iraqis has projected the civilian death toll from the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq at roughly 450,000. Passive […]

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Clown Capitol (Jamiol Cartoon)

Clown Capitol (Jamiol Cartoon)

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Iran
Top Ten Ways the US and Iran could avoid a Catastrophic War

Top Ten Ways the US and Iran could avoid a Catastrophic War

On Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, presented his government’s proposals for ending the international stand-off over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. Iran maintains that […]

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Energy
Celebrating Dirty Gas & Oil is Our Planet’s Funeral   (Klare)

Celebrating Dirty Gas & Oil is Our Planet’s Funeral (Klare)

Michael T. Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com For years, energy analysts had been anticipating an imminent decline in global oil supplies.  Suddenly, they’re singing a new […]

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Now the NSA has your Little Black Book

Now the NSA has your Little Black Book

Before the internet, we used to keep the names and telephone numbers of our friends and acquaintances in a little address book. Young people who […]

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