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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

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EU envoy: Israel will pay price for settlements

EU envoy: Israel will pay price for settlements

A senior European official on Wednesday painted an alarming picture for Israel if Mideast peace efforts fail, saying the country could face deepening economic isolation […]

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Pro-choice, pro-mixed marriage film rooted in Jewish values

Pro-choice, pro-mixed marriage film rooted in Jewish values

‘Obvious Child’ is a good-natured, foulmouthed romantic comedy — complete with Birthright jokes — centered around an abortion

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Human Rights Abuses grow in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Human Rights Abuses grow in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

(By Sarah Leah Whitson) (Jerusalem) – Human rights abuses by Israel and by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank grew during 2013, Human Rights […]

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Hard Times for Journalists, but A Golden Age for Canny Readers

Hard Times for Journalists, but A Golden Age for Canny Readers

(By Tom Englehardt) It was 1949.  My mother — known in the gossip columns of that era as “New York’s girl caricaturist” — was freelancing […]

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Bashar al-Assad
As Geneva II Conference Opens, 1.3 mn. Syrian Refugees Shiver in Lebanon

As Geneva II Conference Opens, 1.3 mn. Syrian Refugees Shiver in Lebanon

(By Molly Crabapple) COFFEE WITH REFUGEES (via techexile.com) “In Lebanon’s Mountains, Syrians Face a Grim Future The teacher never imagined he would live in a […]

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Africa
Climate Change is real, and Endangers East African Food Security

Climate Change is real, and Endangers East African Food Security

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network LONDON – The report, East African Agriculture and Climate Change, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), looks at threats to food supplies in 11 countries in East and Central…

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Gates worries Pakistan Violence blocks Polio Eradication, But is CIA Partly to Blame?

Gates worries Pakistan Violence blocks Polio Eradication, But is CIA Partly to Blame?

(By Juan Cole) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has done an amazing job in targeting diseases for eradication, and the world is very close […]

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Draft to mandate TurkishPM’s consent for prosecution of top commanders

Draft to mandate TurkishPM’s consent for prosecution of top commanders

The draft makes necessary to receive the PM’s approval before trying senior army officers

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The Economist Pulls 'Anti-Semitic' Cartoon on Barack Obama and Iran

The Economist Pulls 'Anti-Semitic' Cartoon on Barack Obama and Iran

The Economist removed a cartoon from an article on its internet edition that has been characterized as anti-Semitic. Click here for the rest of the […]

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