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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives
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California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives

H. Scott Prosterman

Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

Iran’s Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities

01/13/2026 By Human Rights Watch

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran’s Uprising

01/13/2026 By The Conversation

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Give a Book and a Rose to a Lover for George’s Day, April 23

Give a Book and a Rose to a Lover for George’s Day, April 23

Reprinted from last spring. Bookstores and bibliophiles: time to get working on this–advertising, word of mouth, etc. for this year.. There is a delightful custom […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Ways al-Qaeda Causes Carbon Emissions and Climate Change

Top Ten Ways al-Qaeda Causes Carbon Emissions and Climate Change

In an audiotape attributed to Usamah Bin Laden, the mass murderer called for a boycott of the US dollar and blamed the US for global […]

Juan Cole

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Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor

Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor

Coal River Mountain Protestors Meet with Governor – Huntington News Network The closest thing you might get in today’s world to Gandhists and followers of […]

Juan Cole

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Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world

Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world

Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world – CNN.com Coffee houses, surgical techniques, algrebra, some key institutional developments in universities and hospitals, all from Muslim […]

Juan Cole

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NATO, Afghan Troops Clash, 4 killed; Call for Talks with Taliban Rejected

NATO, Afghan Troops Clash, 4 killed; Call for Talks with Taliban Rejected

NATO troops appear to have made a horrible error in Afghanistan on Friday, as they clashed with what turned out to be Afghan National Army […]

Juan Cole

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Obama shows himself a Natural for a Second Term in Debate with Republicans

Obama shows himself a Natural for a Second Term in Debate with Republicans

President Barack Obama was so effective in his 90-minute ‘questions session’ with the congressional Republican conference that some Republican leaders are said to be regretting […]

Juan Cole

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America’s Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org

America’s Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org

America's Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org ‘Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil […]

Juan Cole

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NATO to Provide $500 mn. to Bribe Taliban; Seeks Exit beginning 2011; Obama’s Request for 10,000-troop NATO Surge Quietly Rejected

NATO to Provide $500 mn. to Bribe Taliban; Seeks Exit beginning 2011; Obama’s Request for 10,000-troop NATO Surge Quietly Rejected

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have called the London Conference on Afghanistan for domestic political purposes, as a sort of publicity stunt. But the […]

Juan Cole

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Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan

Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan

Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan | TomDispatch “The foreign soldiers, most of them tattooed and bearded, then went on to the […]

Juan Cole

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