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Rashid Khalidi on the Gaza Ceasefire: The veil that has hidden the true nature of the Zionist project was shredded for good
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Rashid Khalidi on the Gaza Ceasefire: The veil that has hidden the true nature of the Zionist project was shredded for good

Fariba Amini

Fariba Amini interviews Rashid Khalid, Edward Said Professor of History Emeritus, Columbia University on the Gaza Ceasefire

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Iran’s Streets ‘Transformed’ As More Women Shun The Mandatory Hijab

Iran’s Streets ‘Transformed’ As More Women Shun The Mandatory Hijab

10/13/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Daring to Dream after Two Years under Fire: Life in Gaza

Daring to Dream after Two Years under Fire: Life in Gaza

10/13/2025 By Open Democracy

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Palestinians 66 Yrs Later: An Unsustainable Refugee Crisis

Palestinians 66 Yrs Later: An Unsustainable Refugee Crisis

By Pierre Krähenbühl via EurActiv Commissioner General of the United United Nations Relief and Works Agency Pierre Krähenbühl writes on the unsustainability of the Palestine […]

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Iraq: Ayatollah Sistani hints that Parliament should dump al-Maliki as Muqtada mobilizes "Peace Brigades"

Iraq: Ayatollah Sistani hints that Parliament should dump al-Maliki as Muqtada mobilizes “Peace Brigades”

The chorus for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq to step down grew louder on Friday, as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf had his […]

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Militarization
Flashback: All the Ways the Neocons were Wrong about Iraq

Flashback: All the Ways the Neocons were Wrong about Iraq

via Bernie Sanders US Senator Dick Cheney “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no […]

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Democratic Party
How US Hawks Created an Arc of Instability in the Middle East

How US Hawks Created an Arc of Instability in the Middle East

By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch As Iraq was unraveling last week and the possible outlines of the first jihadist state in modern history were coming […]

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Iran
Is Iraq Actually Falling Apart?   What Social Science Surveys Show

Is Iraq Actually Falling Apart? What Social Science Surveys Show

By Mansoor Moaddel Several nationally representative surveys carried out in Iraq between 2004 and 2013 provide important facts about Iraqi orientations toward secular politics, basis […]

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Afghanistan
Pakistan Needs Regional and Global Alliances to Fight the Extremists

Pakistan Needs Regional and Global Alliances to Fight the Extremists

By Muqtedar Khan Pakistan on Sunday launched another military operation — Zarb-e-Azb — against the extremists in Waziristan. The name of the operation means sharp […]

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Barack Obama
Obama Prepares for Drone War in Iraq

Obama Prepares for Drone War in Iraq

By Juan Cole President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that he will send 300 Green Beret Army special operations soldiers to Iraq. They will be […]

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Apartheid
Israeli Occupation Army harasses Palestinians on Pretext of Missing Settler  Youth

Israeli Occupation Army harasses Palestinians on Pretext of Missing Settler Youth

Palestinian families bear brunt as Israel hunts teens (via AFP) It was the sound of the front door being kicked in that woke the Izrayqat […]

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journalism
It’s come to this: Fox News brings on NFL’s Terry Bradshaw for Benghazi analysis

It’s come to this: Fox News brings on NFL’s Terry Bradshaw for Benghazi analysis

Fox News on Wednesday continued its multi-year obsession with the terrorist attack in Benghazi by inviting NFL football analyst and former quarterback Terry Bradshaw to weigh in. Out Numbered host Andrea Tantaros began the segment by highlighting a…

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