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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War
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Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on […]

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A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

A Gaza Ceasefire Is Not Enough: We Must Choose Life and Freedom

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We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

We Must Not Look Away from Palestine: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice

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The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State

The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State

By Jonathan Weiler Since virtually every comment on Hamas in American media includes the assertion that the group’s Charter rejects Israel’s right to exist, it’s […]

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Iran’s elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back ISIS

Iran’s elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back ISIS

In early July, hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Kamal Shirkhani in Lavasan, a small town northeast of Tehran.

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Proposition 1:  How to Swindle the Middle Class

Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class

By Cathy Stripe Lester On August 5, Michigan taxpayers will be asked to vote on Proposition 1, which is being presented in commercials as a […]

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Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private?  The Police Don't

Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private? The Police Don’t

By Hanni Fakhoury via EFF The Fourth Amendment protects us from “unreasonable” government searches of our persons, houses, papers and effects. How courts should determine […]

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"Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation" - Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

“Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation” – Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

BBC: Spokesman for Fatah, Dr Husam Zomlot tells the BBC News that Israeli PM Netanyahu is guilty of ‘ liquidation of an entire nation’. ‘We […]

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UN on Gaza:  Health System Collapse, 25% Displaced, 5% w/ Clean Water, Epidemic Threat, Generally Mad Max

UN on Gaza: Health System Collapse, 25% Displaced, 5% w/ Clean Water, Epidemic Threat, Generally Mad Max

By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory: Gaza Emergency Situation Report Highlights • The Rafah area was subject to […]

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"Dead Children Names Too Threatening For Israel" - Something being Covered Up (Young Turks)

“Dead Children Names Too Threatening For Israel” – Something being Covered Up (Young Turks)

The Young Turks: “”The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has banned a radio advertisement from a human rights organisation which listed the names of some of the […]

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Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr

Boycott of Israel Spreads in European Civil Society over Gaza War, Could Cost $5 bn/ yr

By Juan Cole The ill-considered and remarkably brutal Gaza war likely will give further impetus to the Boycott, Sanction and Divestment movement by Western civil […]

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Gaza:  Khuzaa district Flattened, Evidence of Israeli Atrocities

Gaza: Khuzaa district Flattened, Evidence of Israeli Atrocities

Channel 4 News: “WARNING – this report contains graphic images some viewers may find distressing. Paul Mason reports on the end of the proposed 72-hour […]

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