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Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
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Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership

Norman Solomon

The last 12 months have shown that Trump’s party is bent on inflicting vast cruelty while aiming to crush democracy and the rule of law

Greenland Defense Front – The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)

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Iran’s Universities Have long been Students’ Battleground for the Future

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

In an early instance of Neoliberalism, the German concentration camps for the remnants of the genocided Herero were sometimes given to private companies to run […]

Juan Cole

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Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.;  Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.; Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

A notorious polluting coal plant has finally been closed in Alexandria, Va. It had been giving locals lung and heart problems for years. Ironically, the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

The polemicists of the fringe left and the far right who depict the Baathist regime in Syria as a beleagured victim of Western plotting may […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (273) “Do good, and cast it upon the waters”

Omar Khayyam (273) “Do good, and cast it upon the waters”

My sweetheart —            may she live as long  as my heartbreak —         today began her kindnesses  […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Annals of Settler Colonialism (5): German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (5): German Namibia #savagesunite

The German settlers and authorities round up 13,000 of the remaining Herero. They put them in concentration camps, where 4,000 died of mistreatment. Almost all […]

Juan Cole

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The Dead Pile up in Syria as Historic Aleppo Market Burns

The Dead Pile up in Syria as Historic Aleppo Market Burns

Reuters reports that heavy fighting raged in Deraa, Aleppo and elsewhere all weekend in Syria: Amateur video captured the burning of the historic 17th century […]

Juan Cole

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Settler Violence and Ethnic Cleansing: Mahmoud Abbas at the UN on What Israel is doing to the Palestinians

Settler Violence and Ethnic Cleansing: Mahmoud Abbas at the UN on What Israel is doing to the Palestinians

Mahmoud Abbas complains of Israeli settler colonialism in the Palestinian West Bank and warns of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem. The […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Obama set precedent with Drone Killings for Romney to become Terminator-in-Chief (Ross)

Obama set precedent with Drone Killings for Romney to become Terminator-in-Chief (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: President Obama’s personal involvement in selecting the targets of covert drone strikes means he risks […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Annals of Settler Colonialism (4) German Namiba #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (4) German Namiba #savagesunite

German officers arrive in Southwest Africa from Berlin to deal with the Herero, whose rebellion has died down. Ordinarily a colonial state would now move […]

Juan Cole

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