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The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid
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The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid

Dan Steinbock

Such a shift would be consistent with the Israeli far-right’s redemptionist dreams of Jewish supremacy and Greater Israel

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The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

11/18/2025 By Middle East Monitor

What Policies Can Help Solve Iran’s Climate-Driven Water Shortage?

What Policies Can Help Solve Iran’s Climate-Driven Water Shortage?

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Egypt
Muslim Opposition to the Muslim Religious Right Grows, from Egypt to Bangladesh

Muslim Opposition to the Muslim Religious Right Grows, from Egypt to Bangladesh

The headlines this week were full of stories from the Muslim world about Muslims attacking the Muslim religious Right, whether the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt […]

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Drones
How the US Decides Drone-kill People when it Doesn’t Know Who they Are (Currier)

How the US Decides Drone-kill People when it Doesn’t Know Who they Are (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica Earlier this week, we wrote about a significant but often overlooked aspect of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen: […]

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Taking on Creeping Creationism in Public Schools (Moyers Video)

Taking on Creeping Creationism in Public Schools (Moyers Video)

Bill Moyers interviews Zack Kopplin on keeping the teaching of Creationism in public-funded public schools. US students are not making the gains in science and […]

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After Benedict:  Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

After Benedict: Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

The US television news coverage of Benedict XVI’s last day in office was extremely annoying because it mostly wasn’t good journalism. CNN kept talking about […]

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Uncategorized
New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

Lior Sternfeld writes in a guest column for Informed Comment 2013 marks the sixtieth anniversary to the most atrocious intervention of the US in the […]

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al-Qaeda
How the British Gov’t Stripped Alleged Militants of Citizenship before they were Droned to Death (Woods & Ross)

How the British Gov’t Stripped Alleged Militants of Citizenship before they were Droned to Death (Woods & Ross)

Chris Woods and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people […]

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Tunisia
Harlem Shake as Protest in Tunis

Harlem Shake as Protest in Tunis

Hard line Salafi fundamentalists (who are small fringe in Tunis) showed up at a language school in Tunisia’s capital on Wednesday to attempt to stop […]

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US politics
Why Scalia is Wrong about Voting as “Racial Entitlement”: Texas’ Long History of Minority Vote Supression (Beckett & Lee)

Why Scalia is Wrong about Voting as “Racial Entitlement”: Texas’ Long History of Minority Vote Supression (Beckett & Lee)

Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee have updated their earlier article at ProPublica. Although published earlier, it inadvertently serves as a canny intervention in the debate […]

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Iran
Hagel Confirmed, but Bloodied by American Nationalists Seeking Wars & World Dominance

Hagel Confirmed, but Bloodied by American Nationalists Seeking Wars & World Dominance

The GOP senators have their own foreign policy, and it isn’t the same as that of President Obama or Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. For […]

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