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Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians
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Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians

Juan Cole

They made a trip to the Philippines in November and Sajid Akram used an Indian passport, while Naveed used his Australian travel document.

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Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

12/17/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

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Jon Queally writes at Commondreams.org “Unequivocal.” If the public and policymakers want a single adjective to describe the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

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Egypt
Why US Clout in the Middle East is Gone (Hiro)

Why US Clout in the Middle East is Gone (Hiro)

Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com: What if the sole superpower on the planet makes its will known — repeatedly — and finds that no one […]

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Iran
Why Israel’s Plan to Bomb Iran is more Dangerous to Israel than Obama-Rouhani Diplomacy

Why Israel’s Plan to Bomb Iran is more Dangerous to Israel than Obama-Rouhani Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made no secret of his dismay that the Obama administration is entering into what look like serious negotiations with […]

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US politics
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You Can have Obamacare, or You can have Cruzcare (Jamiol Cartoon)

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Iran
Is Iran out of the US War Queue?  The Twilight of the Hawks

Is Iran out of the US War Queue? The Twilight of the Hawks

The short telephone conversation between US President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Friday may or may not lead to a successful diplomatic […]

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Syria
Where did Syria get its Chemical Weapons in the First Place? (Brühl)

Where did Syria get its Chemical Weapons in the First Place? (Brühl)

Jannis Brühl writes at ProPublica In the wake of a recent Russian-U.S. deal averting American airstrikes, Syria has begun to answer questions about its chemical […]

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Energy
Stand up to Global Warming or just Observe it?  Ice Cover down 40% since 1980 (Naidoo@ Moyers)

Stand up to Global Warming or just Observe it? Ice Cover down 40% since 1980 (Naidoo@ Moyers)

Bill Moyers interviews Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International on the urgency of action on climate change: The program’s blurb: “On this week’s broadcast, the charismatic […]

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Climate Change
With a Solar Minimum and La Nina’s, Why isn’t it Really, Really Cold?

With a Solar Minimum and La Nina’s, Why isn’t it Really, Really Cold?

2013 is witnessing another year of very low sunspot activity, showing that we are in a years-long solar minimum. It may not last much longer, […]

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Afghanistan
Dear President Obama:  Some American Exceptionalism is nothing to be Proud Of (Engelhardt)

Dear President Obama: Some American Exceptionalism is nothing to be Proud Of (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com “But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our […]

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