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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Kurdish Rojava and Beyond
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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Kurdish Rojava and Beyond

Peter G. Prontzos

Murray Bookchin was one of the most significant thinkers – and activists – in the 20th century

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Gaza: As Cold and Rain Assault Homeless, Israel Blocks Entry of Tents

Gaza: As Cold and Rain Assault Homeless, Israel Blocks Entry of Tents

11/16/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP

Pacific Nations aim to go 100% Renewables, saving 25% of GDP

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Energy
Stand up to Global Warming or just Observe it?  Ice Cover down 40% since 1980 (Naidoo@ Moyers)

Stand up to Global Warming or just Observe it? Ice Cover down 40% since 1980 (Naidoo@ Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International on the urgency of action on climate change: The program’s blurb: “On this week’s broadcast, the charismatic […]

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Climate Change
With a Solar Minimum and La Nina’s, Why isn’t it Really, Really Cold?

With a Solar Minimum and La Nina’s, Why isn’t it Really, Really Cold?

2013 is witnessing another year of very low sunspot activity, showing that we are in a years-long solar minimum. It may not last much longer, […]

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Afghanistan
Dear President Obama:  Some American Exceptionalism is nothing to be Proud Of (Engelhardt)

Dear President Obama: Some American Exceptionalism is nothing to be Proud Of (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com “But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our […]

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US politics
Why Ted Cruz Should sit down and Shut Up: Countries with Social Safety Net Happiest

Why Ted Cruz Should sit down and Shut Up: Countries with Social Safety Net Happiest

In a performance that the rest of the world could not even comprehend, a wealthy, Ivy League-educated Texan talked until he was blue in the […]

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al-Qaeda
Taliban on the Euphrates: Syria fighters Dump Moderate SNC, Aim for Fundamentalist State

Taliban on the Euphrates: Syria fighters Dump Moderate SNC, Aim for Fundamentalist State

The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat [Life] reports that 14 bands of fighters in Syria have broken with the moderate Syrian National Council led by Ahmad al-Jarba […]

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Iran
US, UN Sanctions on Iran Hurt Most Vulnerable

US, UN Sanctions on Iran Hurt Most Vulnerable

In smug Washington-speak, US ‘sanctions’ on Iran have forced it to the negotiating table, making it possible to ‘stop’ the Iranian ‘nuclear weapons program.’ Even […]

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Iran
Iranian President Rouhani acknowledges Holocaust as Crime against Jewish People

Iranian President Rouhani acknowledges Holocaust as Crime against Jewish People

The speech of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the UNGA pledged that Iran has no nuclear weapons program and said that Iran never would. The […]

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Government surveillance
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil at UN delivers Stinging Rebuke to Obama on NSA Spying (Lazare)

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil at UN delivers Stinging Rebuke to Obama on NSA Spying (Lazare)

Reuters reports on President Roussef’s speech condemning US spying on her country and on her personally: Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams: In a furious critique […]

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Iran
Is Iran Ready to do a Deal with Obama over its Nuclear Program?

Is Iran Ready to do a Deal with Obama over its Nuclear Program?

The United States, France, Germany, the UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE form a bloc that are convinced that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is […]

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