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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Russia-aided Syria shoots down Israeli F-16 after downing of Iranian Drone

Russia-aided Syria shoots down Israeli F-16 after downing of Iranian Drone

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Syrian anti-aircraft batteries scored a rare shoot-down of an Israeli F-16 late Saturday morning local time. […]

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Israel
Another Reason for Renewables: Growing Israel-Lebanon Conflict over Gas

Another Reason for Renewables: Growing Israel-Lebanon Conflict over Gas

Middle East Monitor | – – Lebanon will fully use energy block disputed by Israel – minister Israel claims gas field put out to tender […]

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Kurds
Turkish Jets again Strike Syria, hitting US-Allied Kurdish YPG Targets

Turkish Jets again Strike Syria, hitting US-Allied Kurdish YPG Targets

TeleSur | – – Turkey views the growing Kurdish power along its border as a national security threat. Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish YPG militia targets […]

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African-Americans
The hidden superpower of 'Black Panther': Scientist role models

The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models

At a time of a war on science, scientific role models are more important than ever #blackpanther #marvel

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US, having Destroyed Iraq, won't give a Dime to Reconstruction

US, having Destroyed Iraq, won’t give a Dime to Reconstruction

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an exclusive, Reuters reports today that the Trump administration is going into the Iraq reconstruction […]

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Yemen
Yemeni Peace Nobelist Karman: Saudi Arabia, UAE are occupying Yemen

Yemeni Peace Nobelist Karman: Saudi Arabia, UAE are occupying Yemen

Middle East Monitor | – – Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman called for an end to the Saudi-led coalition’s military occupation of Yemen in […]

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Evolution
In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black

In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black

TeleSur | – – The connection often made between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth,” said Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist. Cutting-edge DNA […]

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Feminism
Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws

By Moujan Mirdamadi | (The Conversation) | – – Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public […]

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Afghanistan
Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – 2017 was a year of investigations for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).  There was the investigation of the […]

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