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Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?
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Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Juan Cole

Mongols of the Golden Horde catapulted the cadavers of plague victims over the wall of the city of Caffa

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One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

12/09/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

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Want To Make Use Of $47 Billion To Spare? Help Haiti

Want To Make Use Of $47 Billion To Spare? Help Haiti

My essay is up at NPR on why Wall Street should tithe its bonuses to Haiti as an act of propitiation and a recognition that […]

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Najaf Bombings Kill 27, Wound 111; Sunnis Threaten Election Boycott

Najaf Bombings Kill 27, Wound 111; Sunnis Threaten Election Boycott

Three bombs were set off in the old city of Najaf, among the holiest of Shiite sacred sites on Thursday afternoon, according to DPA. The […]

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Kimmel savages Leno on Leno

Kimmel savages Leno on Leno

Jimmy Kimmel does 10 of 10 on Jay Leno’s show and savages him over the torpedoing of Conan O’Brien End/ (Not Continued)

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Part of the Suffering of Haiti is "Made in the USA"

Part of the Suffering of Haiti is "Made in the USA"

Bill Quigley: What the Mainstream Media Will Not Tell You About Haiti: Part of the Suffering of Haiti is "Made in the USA" Bill Quigley […]

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Grayson: The Reason Republicans hate Government so Much is that they are So Bad at It

Grayson: The Reason Republicans hate Government so Much is that they are So Bad at It

Rep. Alan Grayson: The Bush administration didn’t start any wars by mistake except Iraq, no cities drowned under Bush-Cheney except New Orleans . . . […]

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A New Middle East Cold War? Ahmadinejad slams Saudi Arabia over Yemen, Gaza

A New Middle East Cold War? Ahmadinejad slams Saudi Arabia over Yemen, Gaza

While American security officials are focused laser-like on the 300 or so al-Qaeda members in rural Maarib province of Yemen, and worry about further strikes […]

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Ahmadinejad as Truther

Ahmadinejad as Truther

Now Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not only questions the extent of the Holocaust but is also a “truther,” saying, absurdly, that the US and Israeli […]

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Global Earthquake Zones: Western half of Africa looks Safe

Global Earthquake Zones: Western half of Africa looks Safe

If we were smart we’d move to Mali or the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). The world’s earthquake zones according to the US Geological Survey Another […]

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Pat Robertson’s Racist Blaming of Haitian Victims; and the Televangelist Misuse of History

Pat Robertson’s Racist Blaming of Haitian Victims; and the Televangelist Misuse of History

h/t Daily Kos: Evangelist Pat Robertson manages to blame Haitians for the earthquake, instead of a shift in tectonic plates: And you know Christy, something […]

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