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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30

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Indigenous and tribal fishing communities on Brazil’s Amazon coast, their survival and livelihoods depends on fishing

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From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26

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Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

Tariffs trickle into Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner, jilting Consumers and Farmers

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How will Obama and the US respond to IS's murder of James Foley ?

How will Obama and the US respond to IS’s murder of James Foley ?

Channel 4 News: “Islamic State releases a video showing the murder of US journalist James Foley, apparently at the hands of a British jihadi fighter. […]

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Arab Spring
Why has Egyptian Youth Activist, Punished by last 4 Presidents, gone on Hunger Strike?

Why has Egyptian Youth Activist, Punished by last 4 Presidents, gone on Hunger Strike?

AJ+ Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was in prison when his son was born, and is now in prison as his father lies in the […]

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Barack Obama
Dear Hillary Clinton:  When did not bombing Syria create Isis?

Dear Hillary Clinton: When did not bombing Syria create Isis?

By Fariborz S Fatemi Hillary Clinton’s criticism of Barack Obama on Syria and the rise of Isis is wrong, and an exercise in selective memory. […]

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Democracy
Why Militarized Policing is the worst Response to Ferguson's Problems

Why Militarized Policing is the worst Response to Ferguson’s Problems

By Chris Cocking, University of Brighton The town of Ferguson, Missouri has now seen ten days of almost nightly disorder following the shooting of black […]

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What do Iraq's Sunni Arabs have in common with Ferguson, Mo. African-Americans?

What do Iraq’s Sunni Arabs have in common with Ferguson, Mo. African-Americans?

By Juan Cole If prime minister-designate Haydar al-Abadi in Iraq is to hope to defeat the so-called “Islamic State” (actually a kind of mafia made […]

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How effective will Erdogan be as Turkey's new President?

How effective will Erdogan be as Turkey’s new President?

By Mustafa Gurbuz The future of Turkey depends not only on Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions but also strategies of the opposition parties, which have proven […]

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African-Americans
Iran Hard Liners denounce US Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson, Mo.

Iran Hard Liners denounce US Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson, Mo.

By Golnaz Esfandiari via RFE/RL The unrest in the U.S. state of Missouri sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black teenager is being […]

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The American Cult of Bombing

The American Cult of Bombing

By William J. Astore via Tomdispatch.com When you do something again and again, placing great faith in it, investing enormous amounts of money in it, […]

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Iraq
Five things to Know about the Peshmerga Fighters of Iraqi Kurdistan

Five things to Know about the Peshmerga Fighters of Iraqi Kurdistan

AJ+ “The Peshmerga are seen as one of the only forces who can defeat the Islamic State group, formerly known as ISIS or ISIL. But […]

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