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Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,’ as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water
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Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,’ as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with Israel’s Channel 14, Minister of Energy Eli Cohen said that “Gaza must remain in ruins for […]

Albanese’s ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ Report

Albanese’s ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ Report

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Trump Brings back Torture, Big Time

Trump Brings back Torture, Big Time

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Shouldn't the "1% Doctrine" Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?

Shouldn’t the “1% Doctrine” Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?

(By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com) Who could forget?  At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of “information” from top figures in […]

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Apartheid
Pope Francis to call for Sovereign, Independent Palestinian State from Bethlehem

Pope Francis to call for Sovereign, Independent Palestinian State from Bethlehem

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin is signaling that Pope Francis in his visit to Bethlehem on Sunday will strongly support the right of […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Anthony Bourdain on Palestinians:  "The World has visited many terrible things on" them, robbed of their Humanity

Anthony Bourdain on Palestinians: “The World has visited many terrible things on” them, robbed of their Humanity

Anthony Bourdain: it is something we do all the time: “Show regular people doing everyday things–cooking and enjoying meals… It is a measure, I guess, […]

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astronomy and outer space
NASA's Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor

NASA’s Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor

Sea level rise forces US space agency to retreat (via AFP) Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA’s launch pads and multi-billion dollar […]

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Dissent
Iran "Happy" Video Arrestees out on Bail but Pharrell Cover goes Viral

Iran “Happy” Video Arrestees out on Bail but Pharrell Cover goes Viral

Iran frees ‘Happy’ video dancers on bail (via AFP) Six young Iranians arrested for dancing on rooftops to US singer Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy” in […]

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Civil Rights
Historian who Made History: Vincent Harding, Civil Rights Pioneer and King Confidant

Historian who Made History: Vincent Harding, Civil Rights Pioneer and King Confidant

(By Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence) Historian by profession and relentless nonviolent advocate by calling, Vincent Gordon Harding died on Monday, May 19, at the age […]

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Egypt
Top 5 Wars on Religious Extremism in Today's Muslim World

Top 5 Wars on Religious Extremism in Today’s Muslim World

The Fox News commentators who say that the Muslim world is not doing enough to police its own extremist movements don’t actually seem to be […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
If Senate's Phony Journalist "Shield Law" wouldn't Protect a Glenn Greenwald what Good is It?

If Senate’s Phony Journalist “Shield Law” wouldn’t Protect a Glenn Greenwald what Good is It?

Back in March, we pointed out that Senator Chuck Schumer had more or less admitted that his attempt at a media shield law (protecting sources) likely wouldn’t protect Glenn Greenwald. While Schumer argued that it was still “better than current law,”…

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censorship
The BuSSy Monologues in Egypt:  I will pinch your ass and grab your boobs, and you can't talk about it:

The BuSSy Monologues in Egypt: I will pinch your ass and grab your boobs, and you can’t talk about it:

(By Sondos Shabayek) “You can’t go on stage and say this,” the state-owned theater director told me.   “How do you suggest I say it […]

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