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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad
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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

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Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

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Al-Qaeda in Syria rubs out 23 members of Druze Religious Minority, Persecutes Others

Al-Qaeda in Syria rubs out 23 members of Druze Religious Minority, Persecutes Others

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The al-Qaeda-linked Support Front has murdered 23 men from a single Druze clan in Qalb Lawzah, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Pharrell Williams to G7:  Green Energy is a Jobs Issue for unemployed Youth

Pharrell Williams to G7: Green Energy is a Jobs Issue for unemployed Youth

Pharrell Williams | (The Guardian Video) | – – “Pharrell WIlliams, the Grammy award-winning artist makes an impassioned plea for green jobs to be put […]

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Iraq
Has US started Arming Iraq's Shiite Militias against ISIL/ Daesh?

Has US started Arming Iraq’s Shiite Militias against ISIL/ Daesh?

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) The hostility between the US and Iraq’s Shiite militias seems to have slowed. One leading militia member even went […]

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Apartheid
Expelled for Life:   A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land

Expelled for Life: A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land

By Jen Marlowe | (Tomdispatch.com) Nasser Nawaj’ah held Laith’s hand as, beside me, they walked down the dirt and pebble path of Old Susya. Nasser […]

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Apartheid
Since 1967: 95,000 Palestinian Children Incarcerated by Israel

Since 1967: 95,000 Palestinian Children Incarcerated by Israel

By IMEMC News | – – A human rights group submitted, on Wednesday, a report to UN about Israeli torture and mistreatment of Palestinian children. […]

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Has ISIL/ Daesh killed 50,000 in one Year?  Iraq's Horrors by the Numbers

Has ISIL/ Daesh killed 50,000 in one Year? Iraq’s Horrors by the Numbers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Human Rights Commission of Iraq, a body attached to the Iraqi parliament, issued statistics on […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
A Year after the Fall of Mosul, Yazidi Kurdish Survivors of ISIL Massacres Struggle On

A Year after the Fall of Mosul, Yazidi Kurdish Survivors of ISIL Massacres Struggle On

VICE News | (Video Report) | – – “A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and […]

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Iran
Saudi Arabia Fixated on Iran When Sunni Extremists Are Real Threat

Saudi Arabia Fixated on Iran When Sunni Extremists Are Real Threat

By Russ Wellen | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – “Saudi Arabia’s perceived need to keep Iran at bay is distracting it from […]

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Arab Spring
ISIL and the Middle East Generational Shift (with Juan Cole)

ISIL and the Middle East Generational Shift (with Juan Cole)

Elliot Hill | (The LipTV Video) | – – “With ISIS rampaging through Syria and Iraq, and a generational shift in politics and religion happening […]

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