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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love
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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love

Janelle Carlson

The federal government has threatened to starve Minnesota by cutting off SNAP, WIC and other USDA funded programs as retribution.

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

01/17/2026 By Human Rights Watch

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

01/17/2026 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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US Last in Forestalling Preventable Deaths among 19 Industrialized countries

US Last in Forestalling Preventable Deaths among 19 Industrialized countries

Here is the ranking by health researchers of 19 industrialized nations by how well their health systems intervene to stop preventable deaths. The US is […]

Juan Cole

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4 US Troops Killed in Kunar Ambush; Karzai Ahead in Ballots, Amidst Charges of Fraud; Russia Fears Heroin

4 US Troops Killed in Kunar Ambush; Karzai Ahead in Ballots, Amidst Charges of Fraud; Russia Fears Heroin

Jonathan Landay of McClatchy reports as an eye-witness on the guerrilla attack in Kunar Province on an Afghan Army expedition to Ganjgal village that killed […]

Juan Cole

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Krane: American Nuclear Reactors for Dubai, Iran’s Best Friend

Krane: American Nuclear Reactors for Dubai, Iran’s Best Friend

Jim Krane writes in a guest op-ed for IC The contrast is startling. Dubai is Iran’s window through the US embargo, one of its largest […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Party Demonstrates Against Syria as Regional Tensions remain High

Iraqi Party Demonstrates Against Syria as Regional Tensions remain High

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that the Islamic Mission Party [Da’wa] headed by Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki is holding public demonstrations against Syria over its […]

Juan Cole

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Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job […]

Juan Cole

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EU Foreign Ministers Condemn NATO; German Opposition Attacks Merkel on Afghanistan; Kunduz Residents Furious at West

EU Foreign Ministers Condemn NATO; German Opposition Attacks Merkel on Afghanistan; Kunduz Residents Furious at West

A Taliban-set roadside bomb hit a German convoy in Kunduz province on Saturday, likely in vengeance for the NATO air strike on hijacked fuel trucks […]

Juan Cole

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Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Journalist Besan Sheikh recently visited the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the US, where al-Qaeda and other prisoners from Bush’s ‘war on terror’ are […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Earlier this week, Taliban had hijacked NATO fuel trucks. On late Thursday or early Friday, NATO war planes located and struck at the trucks, after […]

Juan Cole

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The Great Withdrawer: George Will repudiates the Hawks

The Great Withdrawer: George Will repudiates the Hawks

Conservative columnist George Will, having argued earlier this week for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan, today says we should get out of Iraq sooner rather […]

Juan Cole

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