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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria

Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria

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Russia Today | (Video Report) | – – Editorial note: Russia Today is an organ of the Russian government, so this report is not independent, critical analysis. On the other hand, Russia is a player in Syria and what it thinks is important, and US media tend not to report outside-the-Beltway points of view. Just […]

Israel
Pic of the Day: Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from stone-throwers

Pic of the Day: Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from stone-throwers

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Striking photo of Palestinians shielding Israeli policewoman from stones thrown by settlers. https://t.co/gburzyw8jP pic.twitter.com/8N6hDqgaFl — Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) August 2, 2015 N.B. A reader wrote in to say that they were protecting her from Palestinian stone-throwers, not settlers.

Apartheid
Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

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By: Anna Kokko | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – ANATA (Ma’an) — In the northeastern corner of the Palestinian village of Anata, between the separation wall and Israel’s illegal settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev, a crowd of about a hundred people has gathered for a celebration. On a small stage, a group of twenty foreign […]

Israel
Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network

Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network

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By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC News ) As Israeli investigators release their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and illegal West Bank settlements, an arrest has been made in the arson attack Thursday night that burned a baby to death and severely wounded his mother, father and 4-year old […]

Counter-Terrorism
Turkey's AKP strikes back: the Politics of attacking both KurdS & ISIL

Turkey’s AKP strikes back: the Politics of attacking both KurdS & ISIL

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By Tristan Dunning – (The Conversation) – – Tristan Dunning, The University of Queensland Stemming from a presumed Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing killing 32 leftist Kurdish university students in Suruc and the killing of several Turkish policeman claimed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkey has begun bombarding both IS forces in Syria and […]

Domestic Terrorism
America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State

America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State

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By Karen J. Greenberg – Tomdispatch.com Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip — or more likely, pick up information through the kind of mass surveillance in which the national security state now specializes. In a series of tweets, a young man has expressed sympathy for the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaeda, […]

Iraq
It’s Dictatorship & Sectarianism, Stupid! – Rethinking the war on Daesh/ ISIL

It’s Dictatorship & Sectarianism, Stupid! – Rethinking the war on Daesh/ ISIL

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By: Ramzy Baroud – (Ma’an News Agency) – – As much of the Middle East sinks deeper into division between competing political camps, the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (‘IS’) continues its unhindered march towards a twisted version of a Muslim caliphate. Many thousands have lost their lives, some in the most torturous ways, so that ‘IS’ […]

Climate Change
World already halfway to Climate Point of No Return

World already halfway to Climate Point of No Return

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The Tree | – – The world may already have warmed more than halfway to the limit governments have agreed to contain warming to, according to a new analysis commissioned by the New Scientist. This new research finds that four out of five major surface temperature measurements are set to pass the halfway to danger […]

Iran
Can the Iran Deal be defeated by Rhetoric likening it to the Holocaust?

Can the Iran Deal be defeated by Rhetoric likening it to the Holocaust?

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by SHALOM GOLDMAN for ISLAMiCommentary Opinion polls and election results indicate that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s rhetoric — which compares the Islamic republic of Iran to the Nazi regime and the recently-signed accords with Iran (the P5+ 1 agreement ) to the Munich pact of 1938 — has played well within Israel. Netanyahu’s characterization of […]

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