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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza, open air Israeli prison, has reached 2 mn. Population

Gaza, open air Israeli prison, has reached 2 mn. Population

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By IMEMC | – – The population of the Gaza Strip reportedly exceeded two million, on Tuesday night, following the birth of Walid Jihad Shaat, from the Rafah district, southern Gaza. Official sources stated, according to Al Ray, that the Gaza Strip broke the barrier of 2 million yesterday evening, when the newborn baby was […]

Authoritarianism
Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats

Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats

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By TeleSur | – – A dozen police officers face “benign” discipline after they appeared with Donald Trump while sporting his “Make America Great Again” caps in uniform. More than a dozen San Antonio police officers in uniform wore U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats during his stop in Texas […]

Boko Haram
Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups

Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups

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By Rose Delaney | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON (IPS) – A recent study supported by the government of Finland has found widespread misconceptions regarding what drives people to join Islamist militant groups like Boko Haram. Boko Haram is Nigeria’s militant Islamist group, wreaking havoc across the nation through a series of abductions, […]

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Apocalypse Or Bust:  ISIL and the Battle For Dabiq

Apocalypse Or Bust: ISIL and the Battle For Dabiq

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By David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | – – The town of Dabiq, in northern Syria, around 25 miles from Aleppo, with its population of just under 3,500, is an unimpressive site for a battle that is supposed to herald the Apocalypse. Yet, according to the Hadith (a collection of reports about the sayings […]

Foreign Policy
In a Multipolar World, the US can no Longer Intervene at Will

In a Multipolar World, the US can no Longer Intervene at Will

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By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In the strangest election year in recent American history — one in which the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson couldn’t even conjure up the name of a foreign leader he “admired” while Donald Trump remained intent on building his “fat, beautiful wall” and “taking” Iraq oil […]

Islam-hatred
Eight ways that Islamophobia operates in everyday life

Eight ways that Islamophobia operates in everyday life

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Peter Hopkins, Gurchathen Sanghera, and Kate Botterill | (The Conversation) | – – Immigration and national identity currently are at the forefront of the public conscience. In France, the burkini ban and in the UK proposals for migration controls following the Brexit vote are dividing communities. The growing tensions mean that many ethnic and religious […]

Education
Would US have more security if it spent on Global Ed instead of on War industries?

Would US have more security if it spent on Global Ed instead of on War industries?

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By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]

Democratic Party
The Unbearable Horror of Donald Trump

The Unbearable Horror of Donald Trump

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By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Monday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was a bizarre, disorienting carnival from the start. It was one of the only debates I’ve ever watched without developing a sense of the winner, not because the candidates hit their partisan talking points, but rather because […]

Israel/ Palestine
Why does Israel have 200K Palestinians in WB Refugee Camps under Siege?

Why does Israel have 200K Palestinians in WB Refugee Camps under Siege?

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By Fabíola Ortiz | (Inter Press Service) | – – An eight-meter-high “security wall” borders part of the Aida refugee camp, 1.5 km north of the city of Bethlehem. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS An eight-meter-high “security wall” borders part of the Aida refugee camp, 1.5 km north of the city of Bethlehem. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS AIDA […]

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