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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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Border Police Militarization and the Immigrant Children

Border Police Militarization and the Immigrant Children

By Aviva Chomsky via Tomdispatch.com Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the “crisis” of Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, which […]

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BDS Occupied Territories
Victim of McCarthy-Era Witch Hunt calls on U-Illinois not to Fire Critic of Israeli Policies

Victim of McCarthy-Era Witch Hunt calls on U-Illinois not to Fire Critic of Israeli Policies

Note by Juan Cole: In the early 1950s, under the influence of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), a national witch hunt was conducted for leftists. McCarthy […]

Juan Cole

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Can the Kabbalah teach us to Repair Climate Change?

Can the Kabbalah teach us to Repair Climate Change?

By Alexandra Piacenza How can Kabbalah, the system of mystical interpretation of Jewish scripture with roots in the 13th century, have a bearing on modern-day […]

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Iraq
Iraq:  Another Town besieged by IS:  Is Amerli the next Sinjar?

Iraq: Another Town besieged by IS: Is Amerli the next Sinjar?

By Ahmad Mohammed | Kirkuk | Niqash.org Demonstrators call on the government to help the besieged town of Amerli. In Salahaddin, a drama of historic […]

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Internet
 Kicked Off Twitter And Facebook, so-called "Islamic State" Terror Group Finds New Tools

Kicked Off Twitter And Facebook, so-called “Islamic State” Terror Group Finds New Tools

By Glenn Kates via RFE/RL The Islamic State has made good use of social networks in spreading its propaganda. Thousands of social-media users were unwittingly […]

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al-Qaeda
Has the War on Terror Failed?

Has the War on Terror Failed?

AJ+ “Has the West’s global “War on Terror” failed? Thirteen years of U.S. counter-terrorism policies have opened up a Pandora’s box of questions – both […]

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Iraq:  Bombs & Bullets vs. Political Process

Iraq: Bombs & Bullets vs. Political Process

By Juan Cole A series of bombings and shootings left some 35 dead in Iraq on Saturday, following on a massacre of 68 worshipers Friday […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Sean Hannity Pwned by Patricia Bynes when he tries to "Educate" Her

Sean Hannity Pwned by Patricia Bynes when he tries to “Educate” Her

The Young Turks: “A Ferguson, Mo. official was having none of Fox News host Sean Hannity’s attempt to “educate” her on police brutality Wednesday night. […]

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African-Americans
It's not Fergustan:  Ferguson is what America Looks Like

It’s not Fergustan: Ferguson is what America Looks Like

AJ+ People around the world have watched Ferguson, Missouri in disbelief that what they’re seeing is taking place in the United States. But Ferguson is […]

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