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Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals
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Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals

Juan Cole

Ironically, the strike was fully supported by the Muslim president of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

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The Gaza Genocide was not a One-Off: The Blueprint is There to be Repeated

The Gaza Genocide was not a One-Off: The Blueprint is There to be Repeated

12/27/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

The Real Threat: U.S. Spending to Combat Climate Change has been Swallowed by the Pentagon

The Real Threat: U.S. Spending to Combat Climate Change has been Swallowed by the Pentagon

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British Gov’t Spied on Diplomats at G20 (& on UN before Iraq War)

British Gov’t Spied on Diplomats at G20 (& on UN before Iraq War)

The Guardian is reporting that: “Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored […]

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US politics
Top 5 Temptations the Surveillance State Can’t Resist (Engelhardt)

Top 5 Temptations the Surveillance State Can’t Resist (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com The Making of a Global Security State As happens with so much news these days, the Edward Snowden revelations about […]

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History
A Brief History of Typography (Animated Video)

A Brief History of Typography (Animated Video)

A History of Typography, by Ben Barrett-Forrest:

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Syria
Obama Isolated at G8 on Arms for Syrian Rebels

Obama Isolated at G8 on Arms for Syrian Rebels

President Obama met with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday in advance of Monday’s G8 summit. The 8 leaders meeting in Northern Ireland, will […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Erdogan Clears Gezi Park Protesters, sets Stage for Polarization

Erdogan Clears Gezi Park Protesters, sets Stage for Polarization

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday evening into Sunday morning had police deploy water cannon and tear gas (some say laced with pepper spray) to […]

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Iran
An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran:  Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns

An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran: Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns

Update: Centrist Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, having won a massive victory in a field of 6 candidates. 13:19 ET, 6/15/13 Early election returns […]

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Syria
Obama should Resist the Clintons & Europe on Syria

Obama should Resist the Clintons & Europe on Syria

Former president Bill Clinton criticized President Obama on Thursday for his inaction in regard to Syria. This step seems extraordinary and surely has something to […]

Juan Cole

Kuwait
The Emir of Kuwait's War on Twitter

The Emir of Kuwait’s War on Twitter

Kuwait in 2005 was hailed as a budding Arab democracy, with among the freest press in the Arab world. In the aftermath of the 2011 […]

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Iran
Qatar Press Condemns Hizbullah Intervention in Syria (Without Irony)

Qatar Press Condemns Hizbullah Intervention in Syria (Without Irony)

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases reactions in the Qatari Arabic press to the Lebanese Shiite organization, Hizbullah, having successfully intervened in Syria […]

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