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Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest
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Israel: Polling suggests Extreme-Right Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble, as Tens of Thousands Protest

Juan Cole

The currently dominant right wing coalition would fall from holding 61 seats in the 120-member Israeli parliament or Knesset to only 50.

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Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

12/21/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

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Whitey on the Moon Again?

Whitey on the Moon Again?

The likelihood is that the government will pay for the lunar space station with borrowed money, making it enormously expensive

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Pentagon
The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

A combination of fear, ideology, and influence peddling radically skews “debate” there in favor of military outlays above all else

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Mexico
Leftist Wave sweeps Mexico: Can Lopez Obrador take on Corruption, Poverty… & Trump?

Leftist Wave sweeps Mexico: Can Lopez Obrador take on Corruption, Poverty… & Trump?

Lopez Obrador also benefited from widespread voter anger at the establishment political parties

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Health
Burning Fossil fuels Even Causes Diabetes!  Air Pollution and Blood Glucose

Burning Fossil fuels Even Causes Diabetes! Air Pollution and Blood Glucose

Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, according to a US study

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Syria
Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday

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Donald Trump
Trump Luminaries at Iranian Jihadi Cult Conference in Paris while Excluding Nice Iranians from Immigration

Trump Luminaries at Iranian Jihadi Cult Conference in Paris while Excluding Nice Iranians from Immigration

Many Trump stalwarts have a peculiar, paid position as lobbyists for a group aiming to overthrow the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Juan Cole

Left Politics
Not Extreme: Sanders' and Ocasio-Cortez's Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party

Not Extreme: Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party

Many positions viewed as “extreme” by beltway pundits today were mainstream through much of the 20th century

John Buell

Israel
As Assad Advances on South, Israel Warns Syrian Army away from Occupied Golan

As Assad Advances on South, Israel Warns Syrian Army away from Occupied Golan

Israel beefed up its tank and artillery deployment on the Golan Heights frontier with Syria on Sunday, a statement said

Middle East Monitor

Inequality
Why the Supreme Court's Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality

Why the Supreme Court’s Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality

The Supreme Court’s decision in Janus will leave the United States still more unequal.

Sam Pizzigati

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