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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

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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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Climate Change
It Begins: Increased flooding, accelerated sea-level rise in Miami since 2006

It Begins: Increased flooding, accelerated sea-level rise in Miami since 2006

By The Watcher | – – A new study found that Miami Beach flood events have significantly increased over the last decade due to an acceleration […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program and the Displacement of Palestinian Bedouins

Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program and the Displacement of Palestinian Bedouins

By IMEMC | – – Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : Lance Bartholomeusz, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank condemned Israel’s latest round of large […]

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Syria:  Is al-Qaeda rising as ISIL is rolled Back? Is the US de facto Allied with it?

Syria: Is al-Qaeda rising as ISIL is rolled Back? Is the US de facto Allied with it?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The cessation of hostilities in Syria never included Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) or al-Qaeda (the Nusra Front […]

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