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Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
Democratic Party

Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

Norman Solomon

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

08/26/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

08/26/2025 By The Conversation

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Iraq
Senators McCain & Lindsay want to “Reoccupy” Iraq and Invade Syria:  Should We?

Senators McCain & Lindsay want to “Reoccupy” Iraq and Invade Syria: Should We?

Guest post from Brian Glyn Williams on viable strategy to diminish terrorist attacks in the West.

Juan Cole

Central Asia
Can Muslim Fundamentalism be Criminalized?  Militant Secularism in Central Asia

Can Muslim Fundamentalism be Criminalized? Militant Secularism in Central Asia

By Farangis Najibullah and Charles Recknagel | ( RFE/RL) | – – Nabijon spends nearly 10 hours a day inside his one-room barbershop on a […]

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Islam-hatred
Dilemma of the Left: How to be anti-racist, anti-War and yet oppose Radical Islamism?

Dilemma of the Left: How to be anti-racist, anti-War and yet oppose Radical Islamism?

By Max Farrar and Rumana Hashem | (Open Democracy) | – – After the 13/11 atrocities in Paris, with global elites increasingly turning their dreams […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Upheaval in Palestine and Israel: Occupation and beyond (96 Palestinians, 17 Israelis Killed since Oct. 1)

Upheaval in Palestine and Israel: Occupation and beyond (96 Palestinians, 17 Israelis Killed since Oct. 1)

By Mahmoud Jabari | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – It can be argued that the rising escalation in tensions and confrontations between the Israelis […]

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8,124 Murders by Firearm in US in 2014 vs.  29  (Equiv. 144) in UK

8,124 Murders by Firearm in US in 2014 vs. 29 (Equiv. 144) in UK

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised The United States continues to be peculiar in handing out powerful magazine-fed firearms to almost […]

Juan Cole

Featured
US to send Spec Ops troops to Iraq to fight ISIL, but do Iraqis want them?

US to send Spec Ops troops to Iraq to fight ISIL, but do Iraqis want them?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced Tuesday that the US would send more Special Operations […]

Juan Cole

Islam-hatred
Terrorist mocks Islam, talks ISIL, then shoots Muslim-American Taxi Driver on Thankgiving

Terrorist mocks Islam, talks ISIL, then shoots Muslim-American Taxi Driver on Thankgiving

TomoNews | (Video Report) | – – 1. TomoNews | – Update: The shooter is allegedly one Anthony Mohamed, the first name indicating a Christian. […]

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Iraq
Former US Military Chief: US invasion of Iraq spawned ISIL: ("Huge Error")

Former US Military Chief: US invasion of Iraq spawned ISIL: (“Huge Error”)

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer| (Commondreams.org) | – – The U.S. is poised to repeat all the same mistakes in Syria that it made in […]

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Banking
After 2008 Wall Street Crash, did US White Working Class Drink itself to Death?

After 2008 Wall Street Crash, did US White Working Class Drink itself to Death?

Barbara Ehrenreich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has […]

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