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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

06/16/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

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?

06/16/2025 By John Feffer

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African-Americans
Trump in Alabama:  Playing George Wallace & making Latinos the new N-Word

Trump in Alabama: Playing George Wallace & making Latinos the new N-Word

Margaret Howell and Jo Ankier | (TheLipTV Video News Commentary) | – – “Donald Trump held a pep rally at the Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Alabama […]

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Iraq
Can Iraq’s Shiite Militias save the Country from Sectarian Division?  Qais al-Khazali thinks So

Can Iraq’s Shiite Militias save the Country from Sectarian Division? Qais al-Khazali thinks So

By Mohammed al-Zaidi | Najaf | (Niqash.org) | – – NIQASH meets Qais al-Khazali, head of one of Iraq’s most feared militias. The cleric and […]

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Apartheid
Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions:  126 in West Bank Left Homeless

Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions: 126 in West Bank Left Homeless

Human Rights Watch | – – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military unlawfully demolished at least 39 structures in Bedouin Palestinian communities in the West Bank […]

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Barack Obama
They're Baaack!  Neoconservatives, Netanyahu, and the GOP set up US-Iran War of 2017

They’re Baaack! Neoconservatives, Netanyahu, and the GOP set up US-Iran War of 2017

By David Bromwich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) “We’re going to push and push until some larger force makes us stop.” David Addington, the legal adviser […]

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Christianity
ISIS Desecrates, Razes Ancient Christian Monastery in Syria

ISIS Desecrates, Razes Ancient Christian Monastery in Syria

Iraq-Syria News | (Video News Report) | – – “Yet again, ISIS violated the sanctity of Christianity in the Middle East and in Syria in […]

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Desertification
NOAA:  July 2015 was most Torrid Month on Record, caused by burning Fossil Fuels

NOAA: July 2015 was most Torrid Month on Record, caused by burning Fossil Fuels

IBTimes UK | (Video News Report) | – – IBTimes UK: “Global warming: July 2015 was the hottest month ever recorded” Addendum: The National Oceanic […]

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Apartheid
Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on "made-up laws"; resistance outlawed

Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on “made-up laws”; resistance outlawed

By Azeezah Kanji | (OpenDemocracy) | – – Israel invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their corresponding entitlements under […]

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Is Israeli military using Barak in struggle w/ Netanyahu over Iran Deal?

Is Israeli military using Barak in struggle w/ Netanyahu over Iran Deal?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – – The revelations from former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s memoir keep coming. Another excerpt was broadcast by […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
Youth Revolts are back-- Lebanon, Iraq Shaken by demand for Services, end to Corruption

Youth Revolts are back– Lebanon, Iraq Shaken by demand for Services, end to Corruption

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The master narrative of much Western journalism is that the youth protests of 2011 have been […]

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