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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

11/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Bahrain
Gulf Arab Press Condemns Alleged ‘Bloody’ Chemical Weapons attack in Syria (OSC)

Gulf Arab Press Condemns Alleged ‘Bloody’ Chemical Weapons attack in Syria (OSC)

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases comment in the Gulf Arab press on the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Baathist […]

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Energy
Not Markets but the People are making the Green Energy Revolution

Not Markets but the People are making the Green Energy Revolution

The propaganda against the green energy revolution contains all the same predictable elements as the propaganda against anti-slavery movements or later against anti-tobacco findings. We […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About (Quigley)

Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About (Quigley)

Bill Quigley writes at Commondreams.org “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot […]

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Syria
Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective

Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective

As pressure on President Obama to bomb Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons ramps up, it is worth revisiting parts of a post […]

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Syria
Does the World Care? 1 Mn Syrian Children Refugees & Aid Money Running Out

Does the World Care? 1 Mn Syrian Children Refugees & Aid Money Running Out

The Syrian conflict has produced a massive refugee problem, and it reached a new level of horror this week with news that the UN High […]

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Domestic Surveillance
NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends

NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends

We have HUMINT, or human intelligence gathered from agents. We have SIGINT or signals intelligence. And now we have LOVEINT or NSA analysts occasionally reading […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Obama wants all the info in your Smart Phone without a Warrant (Lazare)

Obama wants all the info in your Smart Phone without a Warrant (Lazare)

Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams.org Amid ongoing controversy over NSA warrantless spying programs, another legal battle exposes the Obama administration’s willingness to steamroll civil liberties […]

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Is the US Government the Managing Committee of the Pirate Banks?

Is the US Government the Managing Committee of the Pirate Banks?

Greg Palast at Vice exposes the way that Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and others in the Treasury Department conspired with JP Morgan and other pirate […]

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Egypt
Must US Aid to Egypt be Cut Off? (Wang & Meyer)

Must US Aid to Egypt be Cut Off? (Wang & Meyer)

Marian Wang and Theodoric Meyer write at ProPublica Questions about the United States’ aid to Egypt have intensified in the wake of last month’s military […]

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