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Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket
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Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Gangster president Trump and his Justice Department lackeys are engaged in a coordinated cover-up of his entanglements with […]

In Syria, Women are Bearing the Brunt of Climate Breakdown

In Syria, Women are Bearing the Brunt of Climate Breakdown

08/04/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Enabling the Nightmare in Gaza: Defining Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitic”

Enabling the Nightmare in Gaza: Defining Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitic”

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Seven things you can learn from Mandela's Life (CNN Video)

Seven things you can learn from Mandela’s Life (CNN Video)

CNN/Buzzfeed review the 7 things we can learn from the life of Nelson Mandela.

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Top Ten Ways the Beltway Press will treat Gen. Cartwright differently from Snowden

Top Ten Ways the Beltway Press will treat Gen. Cartwright differently from Snowden

NBC reports that Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright is under investigation as the source for David Sanger’s 2012 New York Times article revealing that the United […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
The Other Face of Gov’t Surveillance: Informers, Saboteurs and Entrapment Artists (Gitlin)

The Other Face of Gov’t Surveillance: Informers, Saboteurs and Entrapment Artists (Gitlin)

Todd Gitlin writes at Tomdispatch.com Only Martians, by now, are unaware of the phone and online data scooped up by the National Security Agency (though […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Goree, Senegal's Notorious Slave Island (Video) (President Obama's Itinerary)

Goree, Senegal’s Notorious Slave Island (Video) (President Obama’s Itinerary)

Here is a UNESCO documentary on Gorée, the Slave Island off Senegal,: which President Obama and his family are visiting during their visit to that […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Germans Vigorously Protest Massive British/ NSA Spying on Email, Telephone Calls

Germans Vigorously Protest Massive British/ NSA Spying on Email, Telephone Calls

The German government has demanded answers from the British state with regard to revelations by Edward Snowden that the British spy agency GCHQ has a […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Under European Pressure, Tunisia suspends Sentence of 3 Protesters who Bared Breasts

Under European Pressure, Tunisia suspends Sentence of 3 Protesters who Bared Breasts

A Tunisian court has given suspended sentences to three European members of Femen (2 French, 1 German) who had bared their breasts in public to […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: Morsi Fails to Appease Critics as Violence breaks out in Provinces

Egypt: Morsi Fails to Appease Critics as Violence breaks out in Provinces

Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi gave a major speech on Wednesday, commemorating his first year in office and attempting to mollify his political opposition, which is […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Correa on Smearing of Snowden:  “The World Order is not only unjust, it is immoral”

Correa on Smearing of Snowden: “The World Order is not only unjust, it is immoral”

The USG Open Source Center gives highlights from the Ecuadorean press on the issue of asylum for Edward Snowden. It includes a translation of President […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Did the Supreme Court strike down DOMA because it was Theocratic?

Did the Supreme Court strike down DOMA because it was Theocratic?

The Supreme Court decision authored by Justice Kennedy spends a lot of time arguing that marriage is a matter for the states to regulate, and […]

Juan Cole

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