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Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance
Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance

Mehmet Rakipoglu and İbrahim Ozcosar

By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October […]

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Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

10/21/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

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Can Norway's Dams serve as a Huge Battery storing Europe's Green Energy?

Can Norway’s Dams serve as a Huge Battery storing Europe’s Green Energy?

DW: “Norway derives almost 100 percent of its energy from hydropower. For Germany’s planned transition to renewable energy, a close partnership is crucially important, because […]

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Hannity Unleashes Shouting Points On Palestinian Guest

Hannity Unleashes Shouting Points On Palestinian Guest

Cenk Uygur & The Young Turks: “Sean Hannity got into a shouting match tonight with a Palestinian guest as Hannity repeatedly asked Yousef Munayyer whether […]

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Did Israel go too Far?  The Massacre at the UN School/ Refugee Center

Did Israel go too Far? The Massacre at the UN School/ Refugee Center

By Juan Cole Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports for The Nation from Gaza on the Israeli shelling of a UN school that killed 16 and wounded […]

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Colonialism
Where is Palestine?

Where is Palestine?

AJ+ You can’t find it on a map. But millions call it home. Where is Palestine? It’s complicated. But give us a little over 90 […]

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Real-Life House of Cards: DOJ says President is Judge Jury & Executioner

Real-Life House of Cards: DOJ says President is Judge Jury & Executioner

By Peter Van Buren via Tomdispatch.com You can’t get more serious about protecting the people from their government than the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, specifically in […]

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Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza

Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza

Channel 4 News | Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza For the first time in a major Arab-Israeli conflict, the world […]

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Iraq
Could States Rights & Decentralization Save Iraq?

Could States Rights & Decentralization Save Iraq?

niqash | Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | How can a country like Iraq – with its different sects, religions and ethnicities – be governed appropriately? […]

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Night of Destiny in Palestine: A Third Uprising?

Night of Destiny in Palestine: A Third Uprising?

By Juan Cole A new element entered the current Gaza war on Thursday, as Israel shelled a UN school full of displaced persons taking refuge […]

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Iraq: Christians Say Terror Drove Them From Mosul

Iraq: Christians Say Terror Drove Them From Mosul

By Abdul Hamid Zebari via RFE/RL Rawan Jinan, a 25-year-old Iraqi Christian, says when she received an order on June 18 to leave Mosul within […]

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