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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

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The bad news is that in October and November 2025, “the majority of the population continued to face high levels of acute food insecurity

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1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

1/4 of Syrian Expat Refugees Have Returned, but many to Destroyed Homes, Land Disputes

12/20/2025 By The Conversation

Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

Israel’s Airstrikes on Lebanese Reconstruction Equipment, Factories are War Crimes

12/20/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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al-Qaeda
Police: Shahzad has no Links to Taliban; Clinton Remarks Produce Firestorm in Pakistan

Police: Shahzad has no Links to Taliban; Clinton Remarks Produce Firestorm in Pakistan

Pakistani authorities doing the hard police work in Karachi of attempting to trace the network of friends and contacts of attempted Times Square bomber Faisal […]

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Follow IC at Twitter, Facebook

Facebook keeps promising to lift the 5000-friend limit, but has not done it. So my account over there is more or less full. Just to […]

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Iraq Death Toll from Attacks rises to 119, Biggest since Start of Year

Iraq Death Toll from Attacks rises to 119, Biggest since Start of Year

AP is reporting that the wave of bombings and attacks throughout Iraq on Monday is now estimated to have killed 119 persons. Although some analysts […]

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Iraq
Guerrilla War Continues: 31 Killed in Iraq Attacks; Allawi, Maliki to Meet

Guerrilla War Continues: 31 Killed in Iraq Attacks; Allawi, Maliki to Meet

A series of coordinated attacks on checkpoints and a Shiite mosque on Monday in Iraq demonstrated that the guerrilla opposition to the US-imposed new order […]

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Salisbury:   Times Square Rorschach Test

Salisbury: Times Square Rorschach Test

Stephan Salisbury of the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of Mohamed’s Ghosts writes in a guest essay for Informed Comment: In the smoke roiling up from […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan:  57 Insurgent Attacks a Day; Taliban Vow Major Campaign; Karzai to Visit Washington

Afghanistan: 57 Insurgent Attacks a Day; Taliban Vow Major Campaign; Karzai to Visit Washington

The guerrilla forces in Afghanistan had launched new attacks on NATO and Afghanistan National Army targets in the past few days, after weeks in which […]

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Feds still Granting Environmental Waivers to Big Oil in Gulf after Spill

Feds still Granting Environmental Waivers to Big Oil in Gulf after Spill

McClatchy gets the story: Since the BP oil leak began on April 20, the Federal government has granted 22 waivers to oil companies allowing them […]

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al-Qaeda
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim:  Niass & Shahzad

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Niass & Shahzad

I received some snarky message after the Shahzad attempted bombing in Times Square, asking if I were still standing behind the idea of Islam as […]

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Lieberman’s Modest Gulag Proposal

Lieberman’s Modest Gulag Proposal

In order to prevail in his attempt to have the US citizenship of ‘obvious terrorists’ revoked, Sen Joe Lieberman would have to overturn the Fourteenth […]

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