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How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn
Donald Trump

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn

Dan Steinbock

The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

Why we Need a Life-Based Paradigm instead of the Growth Paradigm

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Trumped!  The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

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Domestic Surveillance
NSA Targetting of Innocent Muslim-Americans Raises 1st Amendment Alarms

NSA Targetting of Innocent Muslim-Americans Raises 1st Amendment Alarms

By Deirdre Fulton Following Intercept report, rights groups and Muslim-American organizations slam NSA targeting Rights organizations responded harshly to reports that the National Security Agency […]

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Apartheid
Israeli Rhetoric Hides War Crimes against Gaza

Israeli Rhetoric Hides War Crimes against Gaza

By Chloé Benoist As Israeli forces began their assault on the Gaza Strip, Israel’s leaders and media ramped up a rhetoric offensive, using dehumanizing discourse […]

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ABC News' Diane Sawyer Mistakes Stricken Palestinians for Israelis

ABC News’ Diane Sawyer Mistakes Stricken Palestinians for Israelis

By Juan Cole In the current round of fighting between mighty Israel and the little Gaza Strip, Israeli airstrikes have killed 53 Palestinians. The supposedly […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Saudi ARAMCO Nat'l Gas Plans undercut US Fracking, Point to big Water Problems Ahead

Saudi ARAMCO Nat’l Gas Plans undercut US Fracking, Point to big Water Problems Ahead

By Tina Casey via Cleantechnica File this one under E for ewps, at least as far as the export market for US fracked natural gas […]

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African-Americans
The Return of Jim Crow in North Carolina

The Return of Jim Crow in North Carolina

By Lauren McCauley Rights Groups Call for Halt to 'Worst Since Jim Crow' Voting Law Hundreds of people were turned away outside of a packed […]

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al-Qaeda
Oil and Terrorist Groups:  Iraq's ISIS, others Seeking Black Gold

Oil and Terrorist Groups: Iraq’s ISIS, others Seeking Black Gold

By Michael T. Klare via Tomdispatch Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine, the East and South China Seas: wherever you look, the world is aflame […]

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Afghanistan
Bush Trifecta lands on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan Imploding

Bush Trifecta lands on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan Imploding

By Juan Cole President Barack Obama of Hawaii had fondly dreamed of bidding turbulent and unrewarding West Asia farewell and turning the attentions of American […]

Juan Cole

Counter-Terrorism
Not Serious re: Terrorism:  GOP House Cut out funding for al-Qaeda, Iraq Records & Research

Not Serious re: Terrorism: GOP House Cut out funding for al-Qaeda, Iraq Records & Research

Representatives on the Hill talk a good game about going back into Iraq or pursuing a global war on terror, but they aren’t actually very […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Mother Of Murdered Israeli Teen Condemns anti-Palestinian Violence

Mother Of Murdered Israeli Teen Condemns anti-Palestinian Violence

“With the Israeli army saying it is commencing a new military operation against Gaza, and Hamas vowing revenge, the words of a mother of a […]

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