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Neocon Nightmare: Americans Flee Iraq as US Embassy is Hit and Oil Ports are Closed
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Neocon Nightmare: Americans Flee Iraq as US Embassy is Hit and Oil Ports are Closed

Juan Cole

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shi’a al-Sudani on Wednesday called up Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian and condemned Trump’s “unjust war”

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

Dahiyeh: the Beirut Suburb at the Heart of a Deadly Israeli Military Doctrine

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As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

As Hell Rains Down on Iran, Western Media averts its Gaze

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America's Walking Dead:  The Perpetual War Machine

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By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) When it comes to the national security state, our capital has become a thought-free zone. The airlessness of the place, […]

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Iraq
Ragtag Kurdish Forces Face ISIL assaults at ‘The Kobani of Iraq’

Ragtag Kurdish Forces Face ISIL assaults at ‘The Kobani of Iraq’

By Shalaw Mohammed | Kirkuk | (Niqash.org) — NIQASH visits the northern Iraqi town of Kharabaroot, near Kirkuk, which has become the frontline for fighting […]

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Floods and fires across Southern Africa raise alarm bells on climate change

Floods and fires across Southern Africa raise alarm bells on climate change

SABC News | — “Floods and fires across the southern african region are raising alarm bells on climate change once again. These effects are being […]

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Netanyahu Imported by GOP to ensure Iran War

Netanyahu Imported by GOP to ensure Iran War

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — Republican House Majority leader John Boehner secretly invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Washington to address Congress […]

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Surprise! German anti-Muslim Leader Resigns after Posing as Hitler

Surprise! German anti-Muslim Leader Resigns after Posing as Hitler

Euronews | — “The leader of the anti-Islamisation PEGIDA organization in Germany has quit after a photo of him posing as Hitler was published in […]

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Climate Change
Solar-powered plane to set off from Abu Dhabi for global flight

Solar-powered plane to set off from Abu Dhabi for global flight

BBC News | — “The plans have been set for the solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, to take off from Abu Dhabi and then fly […]

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Education
Pakistan:  Fighting Extremism with Schools, Not Guns

Pakistan: Fighting Extremism with Schools, Not Guns

By Zofeen Ebrahim | — KARACHI (IPS) – As a wave of outrage, crossing Pakistan’s national borders, continues a month after the Dec. 16 attack […]

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Islamic Jihad
Israel: Palestinian man arrested after stabbing nine on Tel Aviv bus

Israel: Palestinian man arrested after stabbing nine on Tel Aviv bus

IMEMC | — By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC & Agencies) — A Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem was shot, then taken […]

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Barack Obama
Obama to GOP:  More Iran sanctions lead to War (& 7 other Foreign Policy points in SOTU)

Obama to GOP: More Iran sanctions lead to War (& 7 other Foreign Policy points in SOTU)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address slighted foreign policy in favor of touting domestic progress and […]

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