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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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Foreign Policy
Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

By William Beeman | (Informed Comment) | – – There are so many lies in Dick Cheney’s address to the AEI that one hardly knows […]

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Authoritarianism
The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?

The 3000: Why have some Tunisians joined ISIL/Daesh in Syria?

by Youssef Cherif | (Middle East Center Blog, LSE Political Science) | – – Tunisia, regarded as the Arab ‘beacon of hope’ and the cliché […]

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Apartheid
Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine

Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has produced a report [pdf] in […]

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astronomy and outer space
Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Attila Nagy | (Video compilation) | – – “Several dashcams captured meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding over Bangkok, on the 7th of September, 2015.” […]

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Displaced and Refugees
As Germans welcome 1000s of Refugees, EU, Turkey Wrangle over Crisis

As Germans welcome 1000s of Refugees, EU, Turkey Wrangle over Crisis

Euractiv.com | – – Thousands of exhausted refugees and asylum seekers received a hero’s welcome Sunday (6 September) as they streamed into Western Europe. But […]

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African-Americans
Charge that Trump had Black Casino Employees hidden from him in '80s

Charge that Trump had Black Casino Employees hidden from him in ’80s

By Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Black employees at the Trump Casino in Atlantic City were […]

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Christians
Invented Traditions:  No, Christianity doesn't forbid Abortion

Invented Traditions: No, Christianity doesn’t forbid Abortion

By Larry Badendyck | (Informed Comment) | – –          Let me put this right up front.  There is nothing whatever either in the Bible […]

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Israel
1000s of Palestinians mourn as victim of Israeli Terrorist dies after losing her Toddler

1000s of Palestinians mourn as victim of Israeli Terrorist dies after losing her Toddler

Ma’an News Agency | – – Palestinian women cry during the funeral of Riham Dawabsha, on Sept. 7, 2015, at a cemetery in the West […]

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Christianity
Pope Francis' call to host Refugees contrasts w/ anti-Immigrant US "Religious Right"

Pope Francis’ call to host Refugees contrasts w/ anti-Immigrant US “Religious Right”

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Not all American Christian leaders have covered themselves in glory when it comes to the issue […]

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