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Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza
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Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has destroyed most of the cropland in Gaza and won’t let Palestinians fish. There isn’t enough food […]

Israel is exploiting the Vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian Clashes and a weak State

Israel is exploiting the Vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian Clashes and a weak State

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Whose Country is this, Anyway: The Struggle to Survive Trump

Whose Country is this, Anyway: The Struggle to Survive Trump

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20% of Britain's Electricity is now from Renewables Despite Tory Hostility

20% of Britain’s Electricity is now from Renewables Despite Tory Hostility

By Joshua S Hill New figures published by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that 19.4% of the UK’s electricity mix […]

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UN to Detroit: Denial of Water to Thousands 'Violates Human Rights'

UN to Detroit: Denial of Water to Thousands 'Violates Human Rights'

By Sarah Lazare Experts slam city's aggressive drive to disconnect water from residents who are unable to pay United Nations experts declared Wednesday that the […]

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Baghdad Strikes Back:  Al-Maliki Launches Battle for Tikrit

Baghdad Strikes Back: Al-Maliki Launches Battle for Tikrit

By Juan Cole Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political life as well as for the territorial integrity of Iraq. On Saturday he […]

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A Subtle Alchemy: US Finds it easier to Occupy Abroad than to Withdraw

A Subtle Alchemy: US Finds it easier to Occupy Abroad than to Withdraw

By Alan McPherson In 2003, former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld infamously foresaw victory in Afghanistan and Iraq as demanding a “long, hard slog” and […]

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Iraq
Iraqi Mosul's Child Soldiers: ISIS Trickily recruits 10-year-olds

Iraqi Mosul’s Child Soldiers: ISIS Trickily recruits 10-year-olds

niqash | Special Correspondent | Mosul | Much to the horror of the city’s adults, children and teens in masks, carrying guns, are becoming an […]

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Sunni Radicals of ISIS seek showdown with Lebanon's Hizbullah

Sunni Radicals of ISIS seek showdown with Lebanon’s Hizbullah

By Radwan Mortada The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has decided to instigate a full-scale conflagration in Lebanon. All indications show that the […]

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Barack Obama
Clinton to Cheney:  Blaming Obama for not cleaning up your mess… Unseemly

Clinton to Cheney: Blaming Obama for not cleaning up your mess… Unseemly

During recent interview with David Gregory, Pres. Bill Clinton laughed off Dick Cheney’s suggestion that President Obama is to blame for the strife in Iraq, […]

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Top 5 Reasons US Aid to "Moderate" Syrian Fighters is Quixotic

Top 5 Reasons US Aid to “Moderate” Syrian Fighters is Quixotic

The Obama administration’s fruitless search for effective Sunni “moderate” fighters in Syria continues, with the announcement of a $500 million grant to them for training […]

Juan Cole

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Unconstitutional:  Top 4 Ways the US Gov't has Shredded the 4th Amendment

Unconstitutional: Top 4 Ways the US Gov’t has Shredded the 4th Amendment

By Peter Van Buren Here’s a bit of history from another America: the Bill of Rights was designed to protect the people from their government. […]

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