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Assaults on US Academic Freedom:  Acquiescence and Resistance
Academic Freedom

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

H. Scott Prosterman

Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history

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Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

11/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

11/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Iraq
Glaspie Memo Vindicates Her, Shows Saddam’s Thinking

Glaspie Memo Vindicates Her, Shows Saddam’s Thinking

Wikileaks has released the July 25, 1990 cable by US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie in which she reported her meeting with Saddam Hussein over […]

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Egypt
Christian Crowds Protest Violently in Egypt

Christian Crowds Protest Violently in Egypt

Crowds of Christian youth protested in the hundreds in Alexandria and Cairo on Sunday. The protesters in Alexandria were prevented by riot police from reaching […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little […]

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al-Qaeda
Mubarak: We will Cut off the Head of the Snake;  Al-Azhar: This was an Attack on all Egyptians

Mubarak: We will Cut off the Head of the Snake; Al-Azhar: This was an Attack on all Egyptians

The semi-official Egyptian newspaper, al-Ahram, reports that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak asserted in a speech to the nation on Saturday that a foreign hand was […]

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Egypt
Top Ten Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

Top Ten Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

10. The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives will attempt to stampede Obama into keeping troops in Iraq, delaying any withdrawals from Afghanistan, […]

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Map of United Arab Emirates

Map of United Arab Emirates

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New Year in Dubai

New Year in Dubai

New Year in Dubai

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Iraq
8 Baghdad Bombings Target Christians

8 Baghdad Bombings Target Christians

Al-Safir reports that 2 were killed and 14 wounded in a series of bombings extending over a two-hour period in Baghdad in the late afternoon […]

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A Little More Appeal for Support

A Little More Appeal for Support

Readers will have noted that the site is being upgraded. I have hopes to extend it as a more user-friendly repository of information about US […]

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