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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
Bill of Rights

An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?

Mitchell Zimmerman

Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

Trump Says Iran Wants To Talk As US Warships Arrive In Middle East Waters

01/28/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

The United States of Consumption: Drowning in Debt and . . . Waste

01/28/2026 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Souad Nawfal forced to flee after jihadist threats

Souad Nawfal forced to flee after jihadist threats

A prominent female civilian activist has been forced to leave Syria because of threats to her life by hard-line jihadists, according to Arabiya television.

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Islamophobia
Jon Stewart:  Fox seems a little Hysterical about Muslim-American Women Swimming

Jon Stewart: Fox seems a little Hysterical about Muslim-American Women Swimming

Jon Stewart has discovered the most horrible thing in the world on Fox Cable News. A YMCA in St. Paul Minnesota has set aside an […]

Juan Cole

Jewish History
A Jewish Woman in Tunis, 1880:  Photo of the Day

A Jewish Woman in Tunis, 1880: Photo of the Day

Jewish Woman in Tunis, c. 1880. via University of Chicago Middle East Photos For the history of Tunisian Jews see this site

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Trashing the Law against warrantless GPS tracking: NSA nabs 5 Billion Phone location Records a Day

Trashing the Law against warrantless GPS tracking: NSA nabs 5 Billion Phone location Records a Day

Remember when the National Security Agency officials maintained that they were “only” collecting “metadata” from your cell phones? What they meant by that was that […]

Juan Cole

Christianity
GOP:  No Climate Change because, Bible

GOP: No Climate Change because, Bible

Opposing views points to the scary ignorance and bible-thumping to which GOP representatives in Congress are appealing in their genocidal stand against quick action on […]

Juan Cole

Best-Selling German Satirical Novel About Return of Hitler To Be Made Into Film

Best-Selling German Satirical Novel About Return of Hitler To Be Made Into Film

A best-selling German satirical novel about the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany is being adapted into a film. Click here for the rest […]

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Jazz Oud from Tunisia:  Dhafer Youseff, "Eastern Waves"

Jazz Oud from Tunisia: Dhafer Youseff, “Eastern Waves”

Tunisian oud jazz by Dhafer Youseff Dhafer Youseff Quartet, “Eastern Waves” (“Les Ondes Orientales”) For more on the artist see CCTV :

Juan Cole

US politics
Almost Human: How Robots, Race and Neoliberalism killed Detroit and what it Means for You

Almost Human: How Robots, Race and Neoliberalism killed Detroit and what it Means for You

Detroit can go into bankruptcy, a judge has ruled. Likely it means that workers’ pensions will be at least in part stolen from them. It […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Nevada's "Crescent Dune" Solar Facility will Produce Energy at Night

Nevada’s “Crescent Dune” Solar Facility will Produce Energy at Night

Jared Anderson at Breaking Energy writes of technologies for solar power storage that allow the energy generated by the sun to be released at night: […]

Juan Cole

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