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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

12/09/2025 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Comedian Nazareth on Finding a Wife in Gaza

Comedian Nazareth on Finding a Wife in Gaza

In honor of the approaching season, some evangelical Christian Arab comedy from the Gaza Strip— just as a reminder that not everyone being half-starved by […]

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Realnews: without US Commitment, Copenhagen Breaks Down

Realnews: without US Commitment, Copenhagen Breaks Down

From the Realnews network, an intelligent discussion of how lack of US leadership contributed to the failure of the Copenhagen climate conference. Features Adele Morris […]

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Iraq Charges Iran with Occupying Maysan Oil Well

Iraq Charges Iran with Occupying Maysan Oil Well

Al-Sharq al-Awsat [The Middle East] reports in Arabic that 11 Iranian troops occupied a small oil well on the Iraqi side of the border in […]

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WTF? Ahmadinejad making Sense on Climate Change; Defends Nuclear Program as Alternative to Carbon Poisoning

WTF? Ahmadinejad making Sense on Climate Change; Defends Nuclear Program as Alternative to Carbon Poisoning

The USG Open Source Center translates Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Copenhagen on consumerism, hydrocarbon imperialism, massive military budgets, and obscene profit-seeking as the […]

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The Associated Press: Pakistan bans minister's travel after graft ruling

The Associated Press: Pakistan bans minister’s travel after graft ruling

The Associated Press: Pakistan bans minister's travel after graft ruling In summer-fall of 2007, the military dictatorship of Gen Pervez Musharraf was coming unravelled in […]

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Babylon’s last alcohol seller arrested

Babylon’s last alcohol seller arrested

AFP: Babylon's last alcohol seller arrested: family Paul Wolfowitz said that Iraqi Shiites would be better friends for the US than the Saudis because they […]

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OSC: Fatwa against Poppies, China Moves in; Obstacles to Trade with Pakistan

OSC: Fatwa against Poppies, China Moves in; Obstacles to Trade with Pakistan

The USG Open Source Center rounds up Afghanistan Development News for November. Critics of the war often allege that only economic improvement will settle the […]

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| Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling

| Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling

DAWN.COM | Pakistan | President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling Pakistan’s Supreme Court declined to extend a martial law ordinance that granted amnesty to […]

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