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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War
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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on […]

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A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

10/12/2025 By Shamai Leibowitz

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

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Yemen Bombing:  It's not ISIL and it's not Sunni-Shiite Conflict

Yemen Bombing: It’s not ISIL and it’s not Sunni-Shiite Conflict

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The massive twin bombings at mosques in the capital that shook Yemen on Friday, killing over 100 and […]

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Iraq
Even if they can Defeat ISIL/ Daesh, Can Iraqi Politicians Get together?  The Surprising Answer

Even if they can Defeat ISIL/ Daesh, Can Iraqi Politicians Get together? The Surprising Answer

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) – Former political enemies are forming new, non-sectarian alliances to prepare for an extremist-free future. Shiites are partnering […]

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Unprecedented CO2 Crimes:   Next time, Let’s Call it “Cyclone ExxonMobil”

Unprecedented CO2 Crimes: Next time, Let’s Call it “Cyclone ExxonMobil”

By David Ray Griffin, author of “Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?” (Clarity Press, 2015). | – Cyclone Pam, which this past week caused […]

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Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state

Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state

RT | – The US is “evaluating” its policy towards Israel in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election and campaign statements. This could involve passing […]

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International Criminal Court
Will Palestine now take Israel's Netanyahu to Int'l Criminal Court for War Crimes?

Will Palestine now take Israel’s Netanyahu to Int’l Criminal Court for War Crimes?

By Kate Shuttleworth and Joe Dyke | JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (IRIN) – Shortly before Israel’s elections on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that as long as […]

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Climate Change
10 Foot Sea Level Rise Concern:  Warm Water Reaching Antarctic Fast-Thinning Glacier

10 Foot Sea Level Rise Concern: Warm Water Reaching Antarctic Fast-Thinning Glacier

Jackson School of Geoscience News | University of Texas, Austin | – Excerpt: Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) […]

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Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider […]

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Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq's Response

Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq’s Response

Human Rights Watch | (New York) – Militias, volunteer fighters, and Iraqi security forces engaged in deliberate destruction of civilian property after these forces, following […]

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Tom Friedman & funding ISIL:   Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome

Tom Friedman & funding ISIL: Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Being a liberal Zionist was always a tough thing to pull off, but it is becoming increasingly just […]

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