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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman
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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

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Francesca Albanese stands head and shoulders with the great Nobel-Prize women.  Women won for her dedication to international peace

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

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UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

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With the genocide in Gaza, Israeli rhetoric fully reflects a state of exception where the law is not just ignored, but structurally suspended.

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The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire

People were gunned down in a systematic way during these protests on a scale unseen since the 1980s

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The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran

Expanding settlements, making plans to cut the Palestinians into separated areas, such as separating the north of the West Bank from the south

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Many people optimistically assume that popular revolutions against dictators will automatically establish democratic governments

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“Gently, Brother!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

“Gently, Brother!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36

That clay, and the things made of clay , bear traces of past people who died and became clay is a common theme in classical Persian poetry

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