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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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The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) - (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)

The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) – (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)

Skateistan is a skateboard NGO in Kabul, which maintains a facility for skateboarding and gets as many as 300 youth to attend as spectators at […]

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Syria
Syria's Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000

Syria’s Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000

Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Jasim al-Shalal, head of Syria’s military police, defected late Tuesday to Turkey, joining the revolutionaries against the regime. He announced his […]

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Egypt
Egypt:  Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution

Egypt: Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution

Dozens of progressive Egyptian women cut their hair in Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest the passage of Egypt’s new, fundamentalist constitution. The protesters chanted, […]

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Egypt
New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy

New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy

The Egyptian electoral commission on Tuesday signed off on the constitutional referendum, declaring that the country’s guiding legal framework had received a little over 63 […]

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Egypt
Christmas 2012:  The Flowering of Middle Eastern Christianity and the Challenges it Faces

Christmas 2012: The Flowering of Middle Eastern Christianity and the Challenges it Faces

There are more Middle Eastern Christians than ever before, and they are poised between emergence as a new political force in a democratizing region and […]

Juan Cole

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Cairo Symphony Orchestra:  "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

Cairo Symphony Orchestra: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

Cairo Celebration Choir & Cairo Symphony Orchestra: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

Juan Cole

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Christmas in Bethlehem has special Significance for Palestinians

Christmas in Bethlehem has special Significance for Palestinians

Euronews reports on Christmas in Bethlehem and the Palestinians: Some 15,000 pilgrims are in the city and, despite fears raised by the Gaza fighting, hotels […]

Juan Cole

Syria
200 Dead, Many Children, in Syrian aerial bombing of Halfaya

200 Dead, Many Children, in Syrian aerial bombing of Halfaya

Opposition forces said that Syrian fighter jets bombed the town of Halfaya near Hama on Sunday. The bombs struck a crowd standing in line to […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Muslims of Liberated Saraqeb, Syria, put up Christmas Tree for Local Christians

Muslims of Liberated Saraqeb, Syria, put up Christmas Tree for Local Christians

Muslims of Syrian town of Saraqeb put up Christmas tree for local Christians. The young man who is being interviewed stresses the unity of all […]

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