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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption

Dan Steinbock

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms

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Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

12/15/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

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Threatened by ISIL/Daesh, Kurds Maneuver between Baghdad and Ankara

Threatened by ISIL/Daesh, Kurds Maneuver between Baghdad and Ankara

Iraqi Kurds Seek Greater Balance between Ankara and Baghdad By Mohammed A. Salih ERBIL, Dec 4 2014 (IPS) – After a period of frostiness, Iraq’s […]

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Barack Obama
Why SecDef Hagel is Really Out:  As usual, the War Party Won

Why SecDef Hagel is Really Out: As usual, the War Party Won

By Tom Engelhardt (Tomdispatch.com) It was the end of the road for Chuck Hagel last week and the Washington press corps couldn’t have been more […]

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Bill of Rights
Watchdog Says World Internet Freedom In Decline

Watchdog Says World Internet Freedom In Decline

By RFE/RL | — A U.S.-based rights watchdog says Internet freedom around the world has deteriorated for the fourth consecutive year, with the steepest declines […]

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UN General Assembly Demands Israel Mothball its Nuclear Arsenal

UN General Assembly Demands Israel Mothball its Nuclear Arsenal

By Juan Cole | — The United Nations General Assembly (where all 193 countries in the world get a vote) has almost unanimously demanded that […]

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African-Americans
Chokehold Victim Eric Garner's Mother:  "Justice System Failed Us"

Chokehold Victim Eric Garner’s Mother: “Justice System Failed Us”

AJ+ | — “Dec. 3, 2014, New York City: The widow of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man who died after an NYPD officer killed […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Could Years more of Syrian Civil War be Avoided by Comprehensive Talks with Iran?

Could Years more of Syrian Civil War be Avoided by Comprehensive Talks with Iran?

By James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles The most serious attempt to bring the Syrian regime and representatives of the opposition together around […]

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Islam-hatred
Court allows Glenn Beck to be Sued For Defamation By Saudi He Constantly Defamed

Court allows Glenn Beck to be Sued For Defamation By Saudi He Constantly Defamed

By Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) | — “”The conservative commentator Glenn Beck failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by […]

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Democratic Party
The Beltway Beast:  How two Tribes in D.C. are Destroying the Middle Class

The Beltway Beast: How two Tribes in D.C. are Destroying the Middle Class

By Munir Moon The area inside the Beltway consists of Washington, D.C., and surrounding counties, and what I call the Beast includes defense contractors, lobbyists, […]

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Arab Spring
Cole at the Nation:  Egyptian Left Plans Mock Trial of Mubarak

Cole at the Nation: Egyptian Left Plans Mock Trial of Mubarak

By Juan Cole | — My blog entry at The Nation is out: “After Acquittal, Egypt’s New Left Vows Mock Trial of Mubarak” Excerpt: “A […]

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