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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

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

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

10/07/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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5 Countries where Solar Power is making a Revolution

5 Countries where Solar Power is making a Revolution

By Juan Cole | — Developing countries of the global south don’t have enough electricity. Sometimes rural populations are only just now getting electricity. Ironically, […]

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Blogging Colbert (In honor of the Finale of the Colbert Report)

Blogging Colbert (In honor of the Finale of the Colbert Report)

Reprint: So I was on the Colbert Report, hosted by Stephen Colbert at Comedy Central, on Wednesday night, to promote my new book, Engaging the […]

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Top 7 Ways Assassination Fails USA as Policy

Top 7 Ways Assassination Fails USA as Policy

By Juan Cole Wikileaks has released a government assessment of drone strikes aimed at assassinating top leaders. The document urges such strikes, but is amazingly […]

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Roots of Militancy among some Muslim Youth: What can be Done?

Roots of Militancy among some Muslim Youth: What can be Done?

By Mustafa Gurbuz Gruesome ISIS beheadings, the Sydney siege, and now Taliban’s slaughter of children in Pakistan have haunted the media, along with the Senate’s […]

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The Yezidi Minority, Daesh/ISIL,  and Iraq's Human Rights Catastrophe

The Yezidi Minority, Daesh/ISIL, and Iraq’s Human Rights Catastrophe

by Patrick Ball Patrick Ball with Yezidi boys at an informal camp in Sharya, Iraq. Farhad (not his real name) got the call from ISIS […]

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The Israeli Hospital Admitting Syrian Fighters: The War Next Door

The Israeli Hospital Admitting Syrian Fighters: The War Next Door

Vice News | — “In August, al Nusra Front jihadists took control of Syria’s side of the border crossing with Israel and kidnapped over 40 […]

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Central Intelligence Agency
Torture, Assassination and the Other Shoe:  The Coming Great Senate Drone Report of 2019

Torture, Assassination and the Other Shoe: The Coming Great Senate Drone Report of 2019

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | — It was December 6, 2019, three years into a sagging Clinton presidency and a bitterly divided Congress. That […]

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Cuba:  Top 5 other Dictatorships with which US has Diplomatic Relations

Cuba: Top 5 other Dictatorships with which US has Diplomatic Relations

By Juan Cole | — The US sanctions on Cuba were justified by their supporters with reference to the Communist government’s human rights record. That […]

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Pope Francis Backs Obama's Cuba Opening

Pope Francis Backs Obama’s Cuba Opening

By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Dec 18 2014 (IPS) – In perhaps his boldest foreign-policy move during his presidency, Barack Obama Wednesday announced that he intends […]

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