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

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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Arabs:  90% say Qaddafi illegitimate, 75% Want him Forcibly Removed

Arabs: 90% say Qaddafi illegitimate, 75% Want him Forcibly Removed

I received this press release from the Doha Debates (a member of the Qatar Foundation) by email. The results vis-a-vis Libya are not surprising, since […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Meyer: After Bin Laden: Israel & Middle East Peace

Meyer: After Bin Laden: Israel & Middle East Peace

Carlyn Meyer writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: I recently returned from a trip to Israel and the West Bank. I am not […]

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Israel/ Palestine
The Arab Spring comes to Israel

The Arab Spring comes to Israel

Contrary to the line taken by the Israeli leadership, the Palestinian protests on May 15, Nakba Day, were not an Iranian or Syrian plot but […]

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Iraq War
Why was Strauss-Kahn Arrested but W. & Cheney went Free?

Why was Strauss-Kahn Arrested but W. & Cheney went Free?

What is it about the United States that makes for harsh prosecutions over sex crimes but lets leaders off the hook when it comes to […]

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Pakistan
Pakistani Parliament Reacts against US Incursions

Pakistani Parliament Reacts against US Incursions

Pakistan’s elected parliament held a 10-hour session on Friday and decided at the end of it that US incursions, including drone strikes, into Pakistan must […]

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The Koch Brothers and the End of  State Universities

The Koch Brothers and the End of State Universities

The real scandal around the endowment by the Koch brothers of two chairs at Florida State University is that state universities now have to seek […]

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Libya
Women Protest, Mourn in Liberated Misrata as UK Pledges Aid

Women Protest, Mourn in Liberated Misrata as UK Pledges Aid

Chairman of the Transitional National Council based in Benghazi, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, met Thursday in London with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Abdel Jalil said […]

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Iraq War
Stewart Skewers Bushies for claiming Bin Laden Credit

Stewart Skewers Bushies for claiming Bin Laden Credit

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show makes fun of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Doug Feith and other figures from the Bush administration to […]

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al-Qaeda
Bin Laden was Operational Leader

Bin Laden was Operational Leader

Kimberly Dozier of the Associated Press got the scoop. USG analysts going through the material captured at Usamah Bin Laden’s residence in Abbotabad described to […]

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