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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line
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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Braga, Portugal and and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the final days of Israel’s eleven-day war with Iran, the targeted […]

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

06/28/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

06/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Saudi's King Salman in Turkey signals thaw in Ankara-Riyadh Tensions

Saudi’s King Salman in Turkey signals thaw in Ankara-Riyadh Tensions

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is visiting Turkey today, after his trip to Egypt this past weekend […]

Juan Cole

Republican Party
Billionaire buying Election & Given Free Airtime sulks that System is Rigged

Billionaire buying Election & Given Free Airtime sulks that System is Rigged

CBSN | (Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is slamming the Republican party after losing more delegates to Ted Cruz in Colorado this weekend. […]

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Bill of Rights
The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur ARRESTED At Democracy Spring Protest In Washington D.C.

The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur ARRESTED At Democracy Spring Protest In Washington D.C.

Ben Mankiewicz, Ana Kasparian, and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “The Democracy Spring rally was held today in Washington, D.C. […]

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Human Rights
Syria won't have Peace until there is Accountability for War Crimes

Syria won’t have Peace until there is Accountability for War Crimes

By Neil Sammonds | (Inter Press Service) | – – GENEVA (IPS) – The negotiations on April 11, 2016 in Geneva and the recent reduction […]

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Democracy
Do you have to be Affluent to be Democratic?

Do you have to be Affluent to be Democratic?

By Pippa Norris | (The Conversation) | – – Africans recently went to the polls in Benin, Cape Verde, the Republic of Congo, Niger and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Police, going into Palestinian West Bank, Detain & Abuse Children

Israeli Police, going into Palestinian West Bank, Detain & Abuse Children

Human Rights Watch | – – (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children […]

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How Americans Hate:  8-fold increase in Islamophobic Crime since 2000

How Americans Hate: 8-fold increase in Islamophobic Crime since 2000

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990, and since then the FBI has been […]

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Islam-hatred
Is Cruz even Worse re: anti-Muslim Hate Speech than Trump?

Is Cruz even Worse re: anti-Muslim Hate Speech than Trump?

By Dan Dinello | (Informed Comment) | – – With his policies of bombing, bigotry and banning, Ted Cruz-ader fuels Islamophobia at home and promotes […]

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Iraq
Visualization:  How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)

Visualization: How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)

By Kathy Gilsinan, Caitlin Cadieux, Daniel Lombroso | (The Atlantic Video Report) | – – “Americans are constantly being told that ISIS is a massive […]

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