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Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
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Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

Norman Solomon

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

08/26/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

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al-Qaeda
Taliban on the Euphrates: Syria fighters Dump Moderate SNC, Aim for Fundamentalist State

Taliban on the Euphrates: Syria fighters Dump Moderate SNC, Aim for Fundamentalist State

The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat [Life] reports that 14 bands of fighters in Syria have broken with the moderate Syrian National Council led by Ahmad al-Jarba […]

Juan Cole

Iran
US, UN Sanctions on Iran Hurt Most Vulnerable

US, UN Sanctions on Iran Hurt Most Vulnerable

In smug Washington-speak, US ‘sanctions’ on Iran have forced it to the negotiating table, making it possible to ‘stop’ the Iranian ‘nuclear weapons program.’ Even […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iranian President Rouhani acknowledges Holocaust as Crime against Jewish People

Iranian President Rouhani acknowledges Holocaust as Crime against Jewish People

The speech of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the UNGA pledged that Iran has no nuclear weapons program and said that Iran never would. The […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil at UN delivers Stinging Rebuke to Obama on NSA Spying (Lazare)

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil at UN delivers Stinging Rebuke to Obama on NSA Spying (Lazare)

Reuters reports on President Roussef’s speech condemning US spying on her country and on her personally: Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams: In a furious critique […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Is Iran Ready to do a Deal with Obama over its Nuclear Program?

Is Iran Ready to do a Deal with Obama over its Nuclear Program?

The United States, France, Germany, the UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE form a bloc that are convinced that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Is Hamas Finished?  Facing a Youth Rebellion and Egyptian, Iranian Hostility

Is Hamas Finished? Facing a Youth Rebellion and Egyptian, Iranian Hostility

The party-militia Hamas, a distant offshoot in Palestinian Gaza of the Muslim Brotherhood, has seldom been on the sunny side of the street. But a […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Orwell's 'Big Brother' Was less Intrusive than our own Feds & We OK'd That (Calabrese and Harwood)

Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ Was less Intrusive than our own Feds & We OK’d That (Calabrese and Harwood)

Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood write at Tomdispatch.com For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database filled with […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Alshabab attack on Nairobi a Sign of Political Defeat

Alshabab attack on Nairobi a Sign of Political Defeat

The horrible attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi by members of the Alshabab terrorist group from neighboring Somalia is the act of a declining […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today

Wind energy at the moment is by the apparent numbers less expensive than solar, and huge wind farms are being opened throughout the world. There […]

Juan Cole

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