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Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more […]

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

06/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

06/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Bashar al-Assad
Putin: Turkey was protecting ISIL oil Smuggling;  Russia urges Assad-Kurdish Alliance

Putin: Turkey was protecting ISIL oil Smuggling; Russia urges Assad-Kurdish Alliance

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in Paris that his government had intelligence that the reason […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Snowden restores 4th Amendment: NSA halts mass Warrantless spying on your Telephone Records

Snowden restores 4th Amendment: NSA halts mass Warrantless spying on your Telephone Records

By David Greene and Nadia Kayyali | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The NSA’s collection en masse of the call detail records of […]

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France
ISIL/ Daesh exults at our loss of Liberties:  "8 Men caused a nationwide state of emergency"

ISIL/ Daesh exults at our loss of Liberties: “8 Men caused a nationwide state of emergency”

by Charles Kurzman | ISLAMiCommentary Two years ago, al-Qaeda’s Iraqi franchise took Raqqa, Syria, from al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, and was promptly kicked out of al-Qaeda. […]

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Dissent
Shooting of pro-Kurdish Human Rights Lawyer Deepens Turkey's Political Crisis

Shooting of pro-Kurdish Human Rights Lawyer Deepens Turkey’s Political Crisis

GlobalVoices.org | – – On November 28, Tahir Elçi, one of Turkey's most prominent pro-Kurdish lawyers, was holding a press conference close to the very […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Two Israelis Found Guilty of Burning Alive Palestinian Teen

Two Israelis Found Guilty of Burning Alive Palestinian Teen

By IMEMC | – – The Jerusalem District Court, on Monday, convicted two of the three people accused in the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. […]

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censorship
Turkey's Coup against Press, own Generals over Arms Supplies to Syrian Militants

Turkey’s Coup against Press, own Generals over Arms Supplies to Syrian Militants

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey has jailed two very prominent journalists for publishing video last May of a January, 2014, […]

Juan Cole

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
What does ISIL/ Daesh actually want?

What does ISIL/ Daesh actually want?

By Amalendu Misra | (the Conversation) | – – Every religious community, at some point in its history, has harboured a vision of the apocalypse. […]

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Employment
The GOP Race as America's Hunger Games

The GOP Race as America’s Hunger Games

Nomi Prins | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Fact: too many Republican candidates are clogging the political scene. Perhaps what’s needed is an American Hunger Games […]

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Muslim-Americans
Muslims are our Scientists, Physicians, Philanthropists & are critical to American progress

Muslims are our Scientists, Physicians, Philanthropists & are critical to American progress

By Dalia Mogahed and John L. Esposito | (Progressive Media Project) | – – While the world mourned the savage and senseless loss of innocent […]

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