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When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language
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When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,000 Arab residents of […]

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How Zohran Mamdani is the Future: Affordability and the Dignity of Working People

How Zohran Mamdani is the Future: Affordability and the Dignity of Working People

11/03/2025 By Tomdispatch

Lasting Peace and Recovery in Gaza depends on local Participation, not just Ceasefires

Lasting Peace and Recovery in Gaza depends on local Participation, not just Ceasefires

11/03/2025 By The Conversation

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Armed Band Takes Bank Near Presidential Palace; Charges Levelled of Foreign Money, Influence

Armed Band Takes Bank Near Presidential Palace; Charges Levelled of Foreign Money, Influence

On Wednesday morning, on the eve of Afghanistan’s elections, gunmen in the Seraji district of Kabul invaded the Pashtani Bank while laying down small arms […]

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Iraq between Accelerated Withdrawal and bringing US Troops back In

Iraq between Accelerated Withdrawal and bringing US Troops back In

Today’s story about Iraq is a story of conflict between Gen. Ray Odierno and the Iraqi parliament. Elements in the cabinet and the parliament put […]

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Obama Defends Afghanistan War; Campaigning Wraps up with Karzai calling on Warlords

Obama Defends Afghanistan War; Campaigning Wraps up with Karzai calling on Warlords

President Barack Obama gave a major speech on the Afghanistan War to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday. Ironically, the American […]

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Karzai Takes Steps to Regain Lost Momentum

Karzai Takes Steps to Regain Lost Momentum

Incumbent Afghan president Hamid Karzai is clearly feeling the breath of his main rival in the presidential contest on the back of his neck. He […]

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Kurdish, Arab Leaders Accuse Each other of Terrorism over Ninevah Attacks; 12 Killed, 52 Wounded in Iraq Attacks;

Kurdish, Arab Leaders Accuse Each other of Terrorism over Ninevah Attacks; 12 Killed, 52 Wounded in Iraq Attacks;

In Baghdad, two bombs went off near a falafel stand and killed 8 and wounded 21 persons Al-Zaman [The Times of Baghdad] reports in Arabic […]

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No Health Reform for Gaza; But Death Panels they Have

No Health Reform for Gaza; But Death Panels they Have

While Americans are debating their own health system, they are unindicted co-conspirators in an effort to degrade the health, mental and physical, and to half-starve […]

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Hamas Crushes Islamist Group in Gaza

Hamas Crushes Islamist Group in Gaza

Some 22 militants died in fighting in Gaza between Hamas and the Army of God’s Helpers on Friday, the latter being a radical fundamentalist cult […]

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American Grassroots Diplomacy in Damascus

American Grassroots Diplomacy in Damascus

Check out this blog of an interesting experiment in American public diplomacy in Syria: “The American MidEast Leadership Network’s (AMLN’s) Virtual Scrapbook is an online […]

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7 Killed, 91 Wounded in Suicide Bombing at NATO HQ in Kabul

7 Killed, 91 Wounded in Suicide Bombing at NATO HQ in Kabul

A suicide bomber penetrated several rings of security in Kabul and detonated his payload outside NATO headquarters next to the American Embassy, killing 7 persons […]

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