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Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance
Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance

Mehmet Rakipoglu and İbrahim Ozcosar

By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October […]

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Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

10/21/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

10/21/2025 By The Conversation

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CSI Baghdad:  Why don't Crime Units in the Carbomb Capital of the World do their Job?

CSI Baghdad: Why don’t Crime Units in the Carbomb Capital of the World do their Job?

(By Mustafa Habib, Baghdad) It is estimated that around 250 car bombs exploded in Baghdad last year. This year the numbers are climbing and bombers’ […]

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Drones
Death toll of Obama's Drone Campaign 5 Years Later:  2,400

Death toll of Obama’s Drone Campaign 5 Years Later: 2,400

(By Jack Serle) Obama has launched over 390 covert drone strikes in his first five years in office Five years ago, on January 23 2009, […]

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Arab Spring
On eve of Revolution Anniversary, Cairo Shaken by deadly Bombings

On eve of Revolution Anniversary, Cairo Shaken by deadly Bombings

(By Juan Cole) Two bombings shook the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Friday morning. The first was apparently a car bomb detonated at 5:30 am that […]

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Climate Change
Top Ten Ways GOP could avoid "War on Women" Label

Top Ten Ways GOP could avoid “War on Women” Label

(By Juan Cole) Mike Huckabee objects to the charge that the Republican Party is waging a war on women. The GOP obviously is increasingly a […]

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Israel
Israel and Saudi Arabia on Same page re: Keeping Iran a Pariah

Israel and Saudi Arabia on Same page re: Keeping Iran a Pariah

(Via Globalpost) Iran: The one issue Israel and Saudi Arabia can openly agree on (via GlobalPost) Enlarge An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector […]

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Climate Change
World was Hot Again in 2013; Australia, others, Hottest on Record

World was Hot Again in 2013; Australia, others, Hottest on Record

NEW YORK, New York, January 21, 2014 (ENS) – The year 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since recordkeeping began in 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures, NASA scientists said today. NASA’s Goddard…

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Dissent
Egyptian Professor Defends Himself from Coup Gov't's McCarthyite "Grand Espionage" Charges

Egyptian Professor Defends Himself from Coup Gov’t’s McCarthyite “Grand Espionage” Charges

(By Emad Shahin) Statement to my Students, Family and Friends January 23, 2014 It was with severe shock that I received news that I have […]

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Perennial US Rush to War:  Syrian Chem issue was too Foggy to Justify Bombing

Perennial US Rush to War: Syrian Chem issue was too Foggy to Justify Bombing

(By William R. Polk) Nearly five months have passed since the United States nearly went to war with Syria. The issue has cooled down but […]

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European Union
Iran Breakthrough a Triumph For Pragmatists and a Defeat For the Warmongers (Cole @ Truthdig)

Iran Breakthrough a Triumph For Pragmatists and a Defeat For the Warmongers (Cole @ Truthdig)

My esssay, “Iran Breakthrough a Triumph For Pragmatists and a Defeat For the Warmongers” is out in Truthdig today. Excerpt: “By 2011, the U.S. Congress […]

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