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The Netanyahu Cabinet’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide
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The Netanyahu Cabinet’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide

Dan Steinbock

A classified report by a U.S. government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed hundreds of human rights violations

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Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite

Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite

11/07/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Living without a Net in a Trumpian World: The Fate of the Aging

Living without a Net in a Trumpian World: The Fate of the Aging

11/07/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Displaced and Refugees
Whether Jewish Refugees in '30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals

Whether Jewish Refugees in ’30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reprint ed., slightly revised. More than half of US governors have abruptly announced that they will […]

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Authoritarianism
After Paris, Rights Groups warn against Police State Tactics

After Paris, Rights Groups warn against Police State Tactics

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘Whilst closed oppressive societies breed hatred and barbarism, open reflective states built on rights, freedoms […]

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Islam-hatred
Trump: We Should Strongly Consider Closing Mosques

Trump: We Should Strongly Consider Closing Mosques

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Who’s going to step in after Paris to demagogue? Donald Trump of course. He would […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled

Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled

The Tree | – – In the first concrete legal action against ExxonMobil’s web of climate lies, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced […]

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Islam
How Islamic law can take on ISIL

How Islamic law can take on ISIL

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im | (The Conversation) | – – The media coverage of the terrorist atrocities of Friday November 13 in Paris would seem […]

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Is Daesh/ ISIL a modern Raiding Pirate state?

Is Daesh/ ISIL a modern Raiding Pirate state?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Some analysts trying to understand Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) had suggested that it differs from al-Qaeda in […]

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Republican Party
Can we Take another Year of GOP Candidates’ ‘Bright Ideas’?

Can we Take another Year of GOP Candidates’ ‘Bright Ideas’?

By Martha Burk | (Otherwords.org) | – – Can we really take another year of nasty rhetoric and nonsense proposals? We’re officially just under a […]

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National Security State
No, Sending thousands of US Ground Troops won't Fix the ISIL Problem

No, Sending thousands of US Ground Troops won’t Fix the ISIL Problem

by DAVID SCHANZER for ISLAMiCommentary David Schanzer Last night’s attacks will increase calls for more vigorous military action than the coalition has mustered to date. […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Paris: ending immigration to France won't stop terrorism – resisting hatred of foreigners might

Paris: ending immigration to France won’t stop terrorism – resisting hatred of foreigners might

By Durukan Kuzu | (The Conversation) | – – When Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris that have killed at least 129 […]

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