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Sudan
Songs of Freedom: The Soundtracks of Political Change in Sudan

Songs of Freedom: The Soundtracks of Political Change in Sudan

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In 2019, songs provided motivation and guidance

Muslim-Americans
Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse

Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse

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They are from Africa and the Middle East, as well as South and Southeast Asia

Sudan
How Sudan's Protesters Forced a Long-Ruling Dictator from Power

How Sudan’s Protesters Forced a Long-Ruling Dictator from Power

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Protesters upped the stakes by trying to gain support from the army

Israel
Netanyahu won in Israel because his Rivals campaigned as Netanyahu Lite

Netanyahu won in Israel because his Rivals campaigned as Netanyahu Lite

The Conversation

The silence of Gantz’s team on the two-state solution enabled Netanyahu to move discussion to the hard-right’s agenda to annex the occupied territories.

Islamophobia
Don't Blame Islamic Law for Muslim Extremism -- Blame Western Colonialism

Don’t Blame Islamic Law for Muslim Extremism — Blame Western Colonialism

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There is no inherent tension between Sharia, human rights and the rule of law

Climate Change
Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth's Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs

Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs

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If pushed far enough, global systems can evidently collapse into a death-spiral

Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy

Turkey’s Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy

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By Ihsan Yilmaz and Erdoan Shipoli | – Votes are still being counted in local elections that took place across Turkey on Sunday, but so far it appears that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party has lost key cities and towns. That includes the Turkish capital Ankara, which has been run by Islamist mayors for the […]

Climate Change
We Don't have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples' CO2 Problem

We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem

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American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

Climate Change
Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn't Tell you That

Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That

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Climate change is likely to cause a disproportionate increase in heavy precipitation events in the Midwest, a trend that is already apparent

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