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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

H. Scott Prosterman

Censoring academic content does nothing to promote “a safe learning environment,” as Newsom’s signing statement concludes.

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COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

11/14/2025 By The Conversation

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

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Bombings, Corruption Plague Afghanistan; French Commander Targeted

Bombings, Corruption Plague Afghanistan; French Commander Targeted

The Times of London reports that French commanders meeting with local Afghan leaders northeast of Kabul were targeted by insurgents with rockets, which killed 12 […]

Juan Cole

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Neocons, Islamist Marxists attack Iranian-Americans as way of Getting at Obama

Neocons, Islamist Marxists attack Iranian-Americans as way of Getting at Obama

Daniel Luban shows that the assault on the National Iranian-American Council by the rightwing Israel lobbies and their allies in the People’s Jihadi Organization [Mojahedin-e […]

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Palestinians Consider Going to the UNO for a State; Israeli Right threatens to Recognize its own Colonies in Retaliation

Palestinians Consider Going to the UNO for a State; Israeli Right threatens to Recognize its own Colonies in Retaliation

The Palestinian leadership is making medium-term preparations to go to the United Nations to ask for a declaration of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders […]

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Peshawar Bombing Kills 12; Tablighi Turn against Taliban

Peshawar Bombing Kills 12; Tablighi Turn against Taliban

The Taliban Movement of Pakistan launched another bombing in Peshawar on Saturday, killing 12 and wounding 30. The bomb-laden vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint […]

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The Only Anchor

The Only Anchor

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that some top al-Qaeda 9/11 conspirators will be tried by jury in New York not far from the scenes […]

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Taliban Bomb ISI HQ in Peshawar

Taliban Bomb ISI HQ in Peshawar

AfPak continued to generate headlines and concerns on Friday morning. In Peshawar, insurgents set off a huge bomb near the regional HQ of Inter-Services Intelligence. […]

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Tripathi: Afghanistan and Presidential Dilemmas

Tripathi: Afghanistan and Presidential Dilemmas

Deepak Tripathi writes in a guest editorial for IC News that the US ambassador to Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, has sent classified messages to Washington in […]

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Obama Demands an End-Game before Committing Troops to Afghanistan

Obama Demands an End-Game before Committing Troops to Afghanistan

AP is reporting that President Barack Obama is declining to be rushed into committing to the Afghanistan War as an open-ended project, and wants a […]

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Veterans Day

The most patriotic way to honor future veterans of foreign wars is not to create any unnecessarily.

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