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We Made the Climate Breakdown; We can Halt It, before it is too Late
Climate Crisis

We Made the Climate Breakdown; We can Halt It, before it is too Late

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature)In the summer of 2023, researchers “binge-watched 250 of the most-rated movies” of the past 10 years for climate […]

In Too Much of the US, Israel’s Gaza Genocide Has Been Made Invisible

In Too Much of the US, Israel’s Gaza Genocide Has Been Made Invisible

07/08/2025 By Norman Solomon

Did the US and Israeli Attack leave the Islamic Republic of Iran Stronger?

Did the US and Israeli Attack leave the Islamic Republic of Iran Stronger?

07/08/2025 By The Conversation

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Libya
America Black Ops Wars in 134 Countries

America Black Ops Wars in 134 Countries

(By Nick Turse) They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America.  They snatch […]

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Domestic Surveillance
NSA Collects Hundreds of Millions SMS Text Messages every Day

NSA Collects Hundreds of Millions SMS Text Messages every Day

(By Mike Masnick) NSA Collecting Hundreds Of Millions Of Text Messages Daily, Looking At ‘Untargeted’ Messages & Data (via Techdirt) The latest in the ongoing […]

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Kerry urges opposition to attend Geneva on eve of vote

Kerry urges opposition to attend Geneva on eve of vote

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday put in a last-ditch plea to Syria’s opposition-in-exile to attend next week’s peace talks in Switzerland.

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Five Reasons Benghazi Wasn't Hillary Clinton's Fault

Five Reasons Benghazi Wasn’t Hillary Clinton’s Fault

(By Juan Cole) Republicans like Marco Rubio are making hay of a Senate report on the Benghazi attack on a US consulate that left 4 […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
The Great Urban-Rural Struggle over the Constitution in Egypt

The Great Urban-Rural Struggle over the Constitution in Egypt

(By Juan Cole) The tale of two constitutions, 2012 and 2014, in Egypt has to be seen in my view as significantly an urban-rural struggle. […]

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al-Qaeda
Obama NSA Defense FAIL: The al-Mihdar Red Herring

Obama NSA Defense FAIL: The al-Mihdar Red Herring

In his speech on the National Security Agency domestic surveillance program on Friday, Obama offered an explanation of its origins: “The program grew out of […]

Juan Cole

The BDP’s difficult choices over Dec 17

The BDP’s difficult choices over Dec 17

At last, the Kurdish movement had found an interlocutor who gave hope of a political solution and peace.

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Books
Books go Online for Free in Norway

Books go Online for Free in Norway

(By AFP) Literature goes online for free in Norway (via AFP) Most books published in Norway before 2001 are going online for free thanks to […]

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Iran
American Public Pushes back against AIPAC Senators seeking Iran Conflict

American Public Pushes back against AIPAC Senators seeking Iran Conflict

(By Sarah Lazare) A congressional drive for new sanctions on Iran, backed by the lobbying muscle of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, is meeting […]

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