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Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide
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Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide

Norman Solomon

Genocide denial is needed for continuing to appropriate billions of dollars in weapons to Israel, as most legislators have kept doing

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Workers Rights and Palestine Solidarity: Clover in South Africa

Workers Rights and Palestine Solidarity: Clover in South Africa

12/04/2025 By Open Democracy

Israel’s War: Gaza’s Once-Growing Economy is Nearing Total Collapse

Israel’s War: Gaza’s Once-Growing Economy is Nearing Total Collapse

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Is Pope Francis good for the Democrats?  Obama in the Vatican

Is Pope Francis good for the Democrats? Obama in the Vatican

(By Juan Cole) Could enormous popularity of Pope Francis spill over into American politics? Pope Francis is worried about inequality, a Democratic Party issue, and […]

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Democratic Party
Obama White House Operatives Plumping for Hillary Clinton over Joe Biden (TYT)

Obama White House Operatives Plumping for Hillary Clinton over Joe Biden (TYT)

“The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur reacts to a CNN report that “Obama White House Operatives Plumping for Hillary Clinton over Joe Biden”

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Human Rights
Israel Guilty of Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians:  UN Rapporteur

Israel Guilty of Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians: UN Rapporteur

(By César Chelala) Richard Falk, United Nations rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories accused Israel last week of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. Speaking […]

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Internet
Twitter strikes Back at Turkish Gov't Ban in Courts

Twitter strikes Back at Turkish Gov’t Ban in Courts

TWITTER HAS LAUNCHED a legal challenge against the block placed on its services in Turkey. Turkey effectively put up a wall between it and Twitter last week. Initially travellers to its domain were sent to a government website before a Turkish court…

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Human Rights
Iraqi Women’s Rights Under Threat

Iraqi Women’s Rights Under Threat

(By Erin Evers) Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has mounting sectarian division meant for the […]

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Egypt
Egypt: Al-Sisi's run for President: Bonapartism and Gulf Oil Money

Egypt: Al-Sisi’s run for President: Bonapartism and Gulf Oil Money

(By Juan Cole) Egypt’s Brig. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, 59, on Wednesday resigned his military commission and announced that he will run for president. He […]

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Barack Obama
Donald Rumsfeld: A "Trained Ape" would be better at U.S. diplomacy than Obama

Donald Rumsfeld: A “Trained Ape” would be better at U.S. diplomacy than Obama

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s diplomacy, saying a “trained ape” could do a better job. In an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, Rumsfeld complained that relations with…

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Domestic Surveillance
Invasion of the Corporate Data Snatchers:  The Internet of Things

Invasion of the Corporate Data Snatchers: The Internet of Things

(By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood) Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they […]

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The Rise of the Drones (Infographic)

The Rise of the Drones (Infographic)

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com RT America: “New drone steals smartphone contents”

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