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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts.  First, the United States is today more […]

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Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report

Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new International Energy Agency report contains some startling findings about solar energy dominance and its […]

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What’s Stopping Media From Calling Las Vegas Killer a “Terrorist”? His Whiteness

What’s Stopping Media From Calling Las Vegas Killer a “Terrorist”? His Whiteness

Zenobia Jeffries | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in […]

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Donald Trump
One Day's News:  American Apocalypse?

One Day’s News: American Apocalypse?

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – On Wednesday October 4, the news carried an apocalyptic version of our country with its chaotic […]

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Donald Trump
Rouhani: Ten Trumps couldn't scrap Iran Deal

Rouhani: Ten Trumps couldn’t scrap Iran Deal

TeleSur | – – “The nuclear deal was our moral victory,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. Amid speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump is to […]

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Plummeting in Polls, will Trump ‘Wag the Dog’ with Iran, N. Korea?

Plummeting in Polls, will Trump ‘Wag the Dog’ with Iran, N. Korea?

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Buddhism
Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

By Ludovica Marchi | (LSE: British Politics and Policy) | – – Violence in Myanmar has resulted in more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims leaving the […]

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Coal
Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

By Joshua Sokol | (Mosaic) | – – From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, […]

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African-Americans
Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart's Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)

Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart’s Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)

Bannon sent articles to white extremist leaders for line edits

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