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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

Mitchell Zimmerman

Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

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Libya
Free Libya plans Tripoli Uprising as Doha Conference Urges More Help to Civilians

Free Libya plans Tripoli Uprising as Doha Conference Urges More Help to Civilians

Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports in Arabic that the Transitional National Council in Benghazi says that it has a network of cells in Tripoli and plans to […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Mubaraks Arrested

Mubaraks Arrested

Al-Ahram is reporting in Arabic that Gamal and Ala Mubarak, the sons of deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak, have been arrested and will be moved from […]

Juan Cole

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Misrata's People under Siege

Misrata’s People under Siege

Misrata, a city of several hundred thousand people about 150 mi. east of the capital of Tripoli, is under, and for weeks has been under […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Sea Water for Honolulu Air Conditioning

Sea Water for Honolulu Air Conditioning

Here’s a neat, practical idea: Honolulu is going to draw in sea water for air conditioning. The system “will reduce Hawaii’s consumption of oil by […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Benghazi Rejects AU Plan to Leave Qaddafi in Power

Benghazi Rejects AU Plan to Leave Qaddafi in Power

Reuters reports that, as expected, the Transitional National Council in Benghazi has rejected the African Union proposal for a cease fire. Since Muammar Qaddafi’s forces […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Fukushima Core Failure a Level 7 (the Worst)

Fukushima Core Failure a Level 7 (the Worst)

It’s official. The Fukushima nuclear core failure is now more like what happened in Chernobyl than what happened a Three Mile Island, and is being […]

Juan Cole

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Romney Haunted by Ghosts of Romney Past

Romney Haunted by Ghosts of Romney Past

Mitt Romney Has announced another run for the White House. Here is his 1994 debate with Senator Teddy Kennedy, in which he talked about his […]

Juan Cole

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Wisconsin is not Broke, “Budget Crisis” a Fraud

Wisconsin is not Broke, “Budget Crisis” a Fraud

Wisconsin was not and is not “broke.” Its pension system gets a “gold star” for soundness, and it has no enduring structural shortfall in revenues. […]

Juan Cole

Africa
AU proposes Ceasefire, NATO protects Misrata, Ajdabiya

AU proposes Ceasefire, NATO protects Misrata, Ajdabiya

NATO finally seemed to get its act together on Sunday, striking multiple Qaddafi tanks at Misrata and Ajdabiya and allowing the rebels to hang on […]

Juan Cole

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