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Genocide Scholars:  Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
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Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 […]

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

09/06/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

09/06/2025 By The Conversation

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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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Green Energy
Don't wait for Gov'ts in Paris to fix Climate Change: We can do it Ourselves

Don’t wait for Gov’ts in Paris to fix Climate Change: We can do it Ourselves

James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – – It’s now almost certain that 2015 will be the warmest year ever recorded. However, rather than reduce […]

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censorship
The End of Press Freedom in Turkey?

The End of Press Freedom in Turkey?

By Joris Leverink | (Inter Press Service) | – – ANKARA, Turkey (IPS) – Days after the 1 November general elections in Turkey, Beyza Kural, […]

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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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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, […]

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