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Militarization
The Lone-Wolf Terror Trap:  Why the Cure Will Be Worse Than the Disease

The Lone-Wolf Terror Trap: Why the Cure Will Be Worse Than the Disease

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By Matthew Harwood | (Tomdispatch.com) The shadow of a new threat seems to be darkening the national security landscape: the lone-wolf terrorist. “The lone wolf is the new nightmare,” wrote Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer recently, and the conservative pundit wasn’t alone in thinking so. “I really see [lone wolves] as being a bigger threat […]

Western Jews
'Muslims are Jews’ natural allies in Europe': Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

‘Muslims are Jews’ natural allies in Europe’: Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

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RT | – “Europe’s economic difficulties in recent years have led to a rise in radicalism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks brought these tensions to boiling point. How are these changes affecting Europe’s sizeable Jewish and Muslim minorities, and how are they testing the limits of Western ideas of tolerance and […]

Bashar al-Assad
Paying the Piper: How America’s Iraq War haunts its Failed Syria Policy

Paying the Piper: How America’s Iraq War haunts its Failed Syria Policy

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By Michael MacDonald, author of Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq | (Special to Informed Comment | – If recent reports in the New York Times are to be believed, the Obama administration just got serious about the political realities gripping Syria and Iraq. Up to this point, the US has sought, for reasons […]

Culture
Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II

Huge Win for the Open Internet! FCC Officially Embraces Title II

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By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | — Well done, Team Internet. After a year of intense activism, we may have finally convinced the Federal Communications Commission to change course and craft clear, bright-line rules to protect the open internet, based on legal authority that will actually survive the inevitable legal challenge. According to […]

Apartheid
Palestinian Family must visit graves via tunnel under Apartheid Wall near Bethlehem

Palestinian Family must visit graves via tunnel under Apartheid Wall near Bethlehem

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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians have suffered in many ways as a result of the Israeli separation wall, and in the case of one family in al-Walajah west of Bethlehem, the wall separates them from the graves of their relatives. Ahmad Barghouth, 66, told Ma’an he buried his parents and grandparents years ago in his field […]

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Why is Fox News Propagandist-in-Chief for ISIL/Daesh Atrocities?

Why is Fox News Propagandist-in-Chief for ISIL/Daesh Atrocities?

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John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, and Desi Doyen | The Young Turks | – “Fox News has chosen to embed on its website the video of Islamic State burning a hostage to death, a move which makes them the only US media organisation to broadcast the video in full. The extremely graphic 22-minute video shows Muadh […]

Uncategorized
New Greek PM Tsipras: Israeli Brutality Against Palestinians Must End

New Greek PM Tsipras: Israeli Brutality Against Palestinians Must End

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By IMEMC News & Agencies | – “The brutality Palestine is experiencing must end”, main opposition SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, during a rally and march to Syntagma Square, held in protest of the Israeli army’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip. The event was organized by leftist and Palestinian groups and […]

Climate Change
Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking

Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking

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RT | – “Amid falling oil prices nationwide, energy industry players in North Dakota want officials to alter radioactive waste disposal laws so that more toxic fracking fluid can be stored in-state, saving companies tens of thousands of dollars per truckload.” RT: “Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws – to save […]

al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
What Really Caused the Paris Killings?  (Gilbert Achcar Interview)

What Really Caused the Paris Killings? (Gilbert Achcar Interview)

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Gilbert Achcar/ Ahmed Shawki | (Socialist Worker) Interview: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS In the aftermath of the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris and the wave of repression and Islamophobia that followed, Achcar talked to Ahmed Shawki in late January about the questions the left in France and internationally need to answer to organize […]

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