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No, Despite Hegseth, we Don’t need an even “More Lethal” NATO
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No, Despite Hegseth, we Don’t need an even “More Lethal” NATO

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

By Pieter Smit and Anne-Ruth Wertheim | – Translated by Kevin Cook | – ( BNNVARA.NL ) – After Secretary-General Mark Rutte said in his […]

IC Fundraising Appeal:  Support Independent Journalism in a Year of Living Dangerously

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10/07/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

10/07/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Cologne: 10,000 to Protest Turkey’s Erdogan on Human Rights

Cologne: 10,000 to Protest Turkey’s Erdogan on Human Rights

by Michelle FITZPATRICK | – Cologne (Germany) (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to open one of Europe’s largest mosques in Cologne […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine President Abbas:  Trump’s US too biased to Mediate Mideast Conflict

Palestine President Abbas: Trump’s US too biased to Mediate Mideast Conflict

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas tore into the Trump administration Thursday, refusing to accept the United States as the sole […]

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Lindsey Graham disregards Violence toward Women, & his State is a Women's Murder Capital

Lindsey Graham disregards Violence toward Women, & his State is a Women’s Murder Capital

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it abundantly clear in the hearing on Thursday that he cares more about Republican Party control of the Supreme Court […]

Juan Cole

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How the Neocons' 'New American Century' Crashed and Burned

How the Neocons’ ‘New American Century’ Crashed and Burned

(Tomdispatch.com) – When you think about it, Earth is a relatively modest-sized planet — about 25,000 miles in circumference at the Equator, with a total […]

Tom Engelhardt

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18% of Teen Girls are Sexually Assaulted but Few Report it; Can Education Help?

18% of Teen Girls are Sexually Assaulted but Few Report it; Can Education Help?

By David Finkelhor and Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan | – Christine Blasey Ford’s account of allegedly being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they […]

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Donald Trump
Trump's Remarks on Kavanaugh 'Con Job' and Top 4 other Policy Lies that should be Disqualifying

Trump’s Remarks on Kavanaugh ‘Con Job’ and Top 4 other Policy Lies that should be Disqualifying

I plowed through the disturbed ramblings of Trump’s ‘very big brain’ for all the myriads of falsehoods that came out of his mouth Wednesday. Trump […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Doubles its Construction of Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine in 2018

Israel Doubles its Construction of Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine in 2018

Construction rates for Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank more than doubled in the second quarter of 2018. According to data published by […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
UK's Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will 'Recognize a Palestinian State When We Take Office'

UK’s Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will ‘Recognize a Palestinian State When We Take Office’

“In order to help make the two-state settlement a reality, we will recognize a Palestinian state as soon as we take office,” Corbyn said. Labour […]

TeleSur

Syria
Syria:  Israel should ‘Think Twice’ about Bombing after Russian S-300 Air Defence Installed

Syria: Israel should ‘Think Twice’ about Bombing after Russian S-300 Air Defence Installed

Damascus (AFP) – A top Syrian official has said a new air defence system from ally Russia will force Israel to “think carefully” before carrying […]

AFP

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