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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond
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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Max Perry Mueller

Long before Israelis invoked the bible erase a Palestinian homeland another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God

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Climate Breakdown:  Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

12/10/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

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Ben Affleck on Bill Maher's Muslim Problem

Ben Affleck on Bill Maher’s Muslim Problem

By Juan Cole Bravo to Ben Affleck and Nicholas Kristoff for telling Bill Maher off about his chronic case of Muslim-hating bigotry. (He would say […]

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art and photography
NASA Photo of Sahara:  Richat Structure, Mauritania

NASA Photo of Sahara: Richat Structure, Mauritania

NASA Richat Structure, Mauritania, Western Sahara Desert “Richat Structure, Mauritania This prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania has attracted attention since the […]

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BDS Occupied Territories
Incivility: On not Bringing up Occupied Palestinians in Polite Company

Incivility: On not Bringing up Occupied Palestinians in Polite Company

By Heike Schotten (Ma’an News Agency) In the US, and especially within the US Palestine solidarity movement, the biggest Israel-Palestine news since Gaza Genocide 3.0 […]

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Rep. Louie Gohmert’s Ebola Theory Is Dumber Than He Is

Rep. Louie Gohmert’s Ebola Theory Is Dumber Than He Is

The Young Turks “Louie Gohmert (R-TX) this week blasted President Barack Obama for sending troops to Africa to help fight an Ebola outbreak, and predicted […]

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Central Asia
Does Bear + Dragon Trump Eagle?  How Russia & China may block the US in Asia

Does Bear + Dragon Trump Eagle? How Russia & China may block the US in Asia

By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch.com A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s […]

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Asia
The Yasukuni Shuffle:  China and Japan duke it out via T.V. Serials on the Wrongs of WW II

The Yasukuni Shuffle: China and Japan duke it out via T.V. Serials on the Wrongs of WW II

By Philip J Cunningham Everyday hundreds, if not thousands of Chinese and Japanese kill one another on Chinese television. Hundreds of Anti-Japan war dramas were […]

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Pan-Mideast War:  ISIL and al-Qaeda attack Hizbullah outposts Near Lebanese Border

Pan-Mideast War: ISIL and al-Qaeda attack Hizbullah outposts Near Lebanese Border

By Juan Cole ISIL and al-Qaeda have, according to Hizbullah, launched attacks in Syria’s Qalamoun district (abutting the Lebanese border near Baalbek) on Hizbullah military […]

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Health
Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response

Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response

News365 “WASHINGTON — The lead agency tasked with responding to the threat of Ebola both within the United States and abroad has seen its budget […]

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Iraq
Kurdish Forces Under-equipped, Need ground troop Allies:  Peshmerga General

Kurdish Forces Under-equipped, Need ground troop Allies: Peshmerga General

RFE/RL In an interview with Samira Ali Mandee of RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq, General Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the Peshmerga Ministry of Iraq’s Kurdish region, […]

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