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No, Despite Hegseth, we Don’t need an even “More Lethal” NATO
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No, Despite Hegseth, we Don’t need an even “More Lethal” NATO

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By Pieter Smit and Anne-Ruth Wertheim | – Translated by Kevin Cook | – ( BNNVARA.NL ) – After Secretary-General Mark Rutte said in his […]

IC Fundraising Appeal:  Support Independent Journalism in a Year of Living Dangerously

IC Fundraising Appeal: Support Independent Journalism in a Year of Living Dangerously

10/07/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

Trump’s Gaza Initiative: Chance for Peace or Empty Words?

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Iran Moves To Silence criticism of Nuclear Deal by Hard Line Media

Iran Moves To Silence criticism of Nuclear Deal by Hard Line Media

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Iran’s state media watchdog has suspended a hard-line publication and warned two other like-minded outlets for […]

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Japan
How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex

How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik | (Author, Big Science) | – – This summer — August 6 and 9, to be precise — marks the 70th anniversary […]

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Environment
Why Israelis have cut down 800,000 Palestinian Olive Trees

Why Israelis have cut down 800,000 Palestinian Olive Trees

Text by Elle Kurancid, photos by Bryony Dunne | (Jadaliyya) | – – Olive tree felling is a longtime strategy of Israel’s occupation regime in […]

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Foreign Policy
Support for Iran Nuclear Deal:  L. A. Jews for Peace Statement

Support for Iran Nuclear Deal: L. A. Jews for Peace Statement

L.A. Jews for Peace | The agreement negotiated between the P5+1 (United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, Germany, and the European Union) and Iran […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Major Indirect Benefits of Obama's Climate Plan that could save the World

Major Indirect Benefits of Obama’s Climate Plan that could save the World

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama spoke on Monday on his plan to use the Environmental Protection Agency to pressure […]

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria

Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria

Russia Today | (Video Report) | – – Editorial note: Russia Today is an organ of the Russian government, so this report is not independent, […]

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Israel
Pic of the Day: Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from stone-throwers

Pic of the Day: Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from stone-throwers

Striking photo of Palestinians shielding Israeli policewoman from stones thrown by settlers. https://t.co/gburzyw8jP pic.twitter.com/8N6hDqgaFl — Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) August 2, 2015 N.B. A reader wrote […]

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Apartheid
Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

By: Anna Kokko | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – ANATA (Ma’an) — In the northeastern corner of the Palestinian village of Anata, between the […]

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Israel
Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network

Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network

By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC News ) As Israeli investigators release their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and […]

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