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The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict
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The Key Diplomatic Role Türkiye Played in the Israel-Iran Conflict

Volkan Isbasaran

On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump on the margins of the NATO summit at the Hague. His office […]

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

How will Your Data be Used in an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

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Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank

06/25/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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The Most Dangerous Man in the World

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Let’s start with the universe and work our way in. Who cares? Not them because […]

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Top 5 Reasons why Trump's Threats to UNGA over Jerusalem are Empty

Top 5 Reasons why Trump’s Threats to UNGA over Jerusalem are Empty

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The thuggish Trump and his gun moll Nikki Haley have threatened member countries of the UN […]

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Congressional Efforts to Expand NSA Spying on Americans are still a Danger

Congressional Efforts to Expand NSA Spying on Americans are still a Danger

By David Ruiz | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The debate over how to reauthorize certain NSA surveillance authorities has seen a whirlwind of […]

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Inequality
GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the middle class

GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the middle class

Steven Pressman | (The Conversation) | – – The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique. It is the heart of the American […]

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Displaced and Refugees
1,000 Days of War Bringing 'Apocalypse' on Yemen: Oxfam

1,000 Days of War Bringing ‘Apocalypse’ on Yemen: Oxfam

TeleSur | – – The U.K.-based group said more than 5,000 people have died since the beginning of the war in March 2015. Yemen is […]

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Yes, America, there is a Class War, and you Just Lost It

Yes, America, there is a Class War, and you Just Lost It

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Republican Party did not just overhaul the tax code and they did not cut “your” […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Will Palestine Request Full UN Membership in January 2018?

Will Palestine Request Full UN Membership in January 2018?

TeleSur | – – Egypt introduced a draft resolution to the Security Council to reject a decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. […]

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Houthi
Saudi strikes have killed 136 civilians in Yemen, as Huthis Rocket Riyadh

Saudi strikes have killed 136 civilians in Yemen, as Huthis Rocket Riyadh

Middle East Monitor | – – Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen have killed at least 136 civilians since 6 December, Reuters reported. […]

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Afghanistan
How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare

How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I remember the day President Obama let me down.  It was December 1, 2009, and as […]

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