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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption

Dan Steinbock

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms

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Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

12/15/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

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Khamenei Blames Obama for post-election Disturbances Demands non-intervention as prerequisite to improved ties

Khamenei Blames Obama for post-election Disturbances Demands non-intervention as prerequisite to improved ties

The USG Open Source Center summarizes the address of Leader Ali Khamenei of Iran on the occasion of the Persian New Year, in which he […]

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Can US catch up to Iran in Providing Health Care to Least Privileged?

Can US catch up to Iran in Providing Health Care to Least Privileged?

Proponents of unregulated capitalism, or if you will, the ‘free market,’ maintain that it provides a better life for all than do other systems. This […]

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Jenkins: Bible Far More Violent than Qur’an

Jenkins: Bible Far More Violent than Qur’an

Philip Jenkins studied violence in the Bible and in the Qur’an, and found that the Bible is ‘far more violent.’ This conclusion is obvious to […]

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Public left Cold by GOP opposition to Health Care Reform

Public left Cold by GOP opposition to Health Care Reform

Daily Kos analyzes a Kaiser poll showing that a majority of Americans does not care one way or another that the Republican Party opposes heath […]

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Obama Addresses Iran Again on Persian New Year; Mousavi pledges to fight on; Call for Release of Derakhshan, 'Blogfather'

Obama Addresses Iran Again on Persian New Year; Mousavi pledges to fight on; Call for Release of Derakhshan, ‘Blogfather’

Today Iranians mark Now Ruz, their ancient New Year’s day, celebrated on the vernal equinox (which most often falls on March 21 but sometimes, as […]

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Cole on Aljazeera English re: Iraq

Cole on Aljazeera English re: Iraq

For the seventh anniversary of the launching of the Iraq War, Jasim al-Azzawi interviews Juergen Todenhoefer and myself: End/ (Not Continued)

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Jon Stewart on Weeping Beck

Jon Stewart on Weeping Beck

Jon Stewart uses satire to point to the real dangers of Glenn Beck’s demagoguery (brought to you by the world’s most evil billionaire, Rupert Murdoch) […]

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Jund Rocket Kills Thai Farm Worker in Israel; Israeli Jets Retaliate; Lady Ashton of EU calls for Resumption of Talks

Jund Rocket Kills Thai Farm Worker in Israel; Israeli Jets Retaliate; Lady Ashton of EU calls for Resumption of Talks

The visit to Gaza of Lady Ashton, the head of foreign policy in the European Union, was marred Thursday when a small fringe militant group […]

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Jeffrey Goldberg: The Movie

Jeffrey Goldberg: The Movie

Here is the video version of Jeffrey Goldberg’s punditry on the Middle East. End/ (Not Continued)

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