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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran
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Iraqi Shiites Demand Expulsion of US Troops after Israel Attacks Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-Iranian War of 2025 has put Iraq in an extremely difficult situation. The country’s Shiite majority sympathizes with Iran […]

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

American Spring? How nonviolent Protest in the US is Accelerating

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Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

Approaching the End of Liberal Internationalism: Will America Ever Rejoin the International Community?

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Water Being Used as Weapon of War in Syrian Conflict, UN Warns

Water Being Used as Weapon of War in Syrian Conflict, UN Warns

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer. | (Commondreams.org) | – – Compounded by scorching heat wave, Syrians are experiencing ‘deliberate’ water cut-offs, often for weeks at […]

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Defending Natalie Portman on Holocaust:  Sometimes it can be subverted to fear-mongering

Defending Natalie Portman on Holocaust: Sometimes it can be subverted to fear-mongering

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Actress Natalie Portman has kicked off a controversy with remarks about how to remember the Nazi […]

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journalism
Jorge Ramos explains his ejection from Trump's press conference

Jorge Ramos explains his ejection from Trump’s press conference

Jorge Ramos | (Univision Noticias) (Video Interview)| – – Univision Noticias: “Jorge Ramos explains what happened after he was escorted out of Trump’s press conference”

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Syria
ISIL's Assault on History: Blows Up 1st Century Baal Shamin Temple in Palmyra

ISIL’s Assault on History: Blows Up 1st Century Baal Shamin Temple in Palmyra

RFE / RL | – – Gunmen from the Islamic State (IS) militant group have blown up a first century A.D. temple in the ancient […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
Jeb Bush’s Torquemada Platform (Political Cartoon)

Jeb Bush’s Torquemada Platform (Political Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol | (Jamiol’s World) Via Jamiol’s World

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Coal
Coal Industry Collapsing in Appalachia, leaving behind Blighted Landscape

Coal Industry Collapsing in Appalachia, leaving behind Blighted Landscape

By Laura Gottesdiener. | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In Appalachia, explosions have leveled the mountain tops into perfect race tracks for Ryan Hensley’s all-terrain vehicle […]

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Arab Americans
GOP Islamophobia:  Scott Walker thinks there are only “a Handful” of “Reasonable Muslims”

GOP Islamophobia: Scott Walker thinks there are only “a Handful” of “Reasonable Muslims”

Via Bridge Project Tracking islamophobia

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Apartheid
President of Israel declares Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank a "Right", key to Zionism

President of Israel declares Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank a “Right”, key to Zionism

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday declared Israeli squatting on the Palestinian West Bank a “right” […]

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Bill of Rights
A CIA Eyewitness blows the Whistle on Bushie Torturers still Justifying Crimes

A CIA Eyewitness blows the Whistle on Bushie Torturers still Justifying Crimes

By John Kiriakou | (Foreign Policy in Focus/ Otherwords.org) | – – They can call it anything they want, but the CIA tortured its prisoners. […]

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