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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

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Who you Call is Far more Revealing than what you Say: Landau on Gov’t Spying (Democracy Now!)

Who you Call is Far more Revealing than what you Say: Landau on Gov’t Spying (Democracy Now!)

Democracy Now! interviews Susan Landau, mathematician and former Sun Microsystems engineer, author of the book Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies. […]

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NSA Leads come from others’ police work, not from data mining: the case of Headley (Rotella)

NSA Leads come from others’ police work, not from data mining: the case of Headley (Rotella)

Sebastian Rotella writes at ProPublica June 12: This story has been updated with NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander’s Senate testimony on surveillance. Defending a vast […]

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Sen. Rand Paul:  Snowden's 'Civil Disobedience' seeks "to defend the Fourth Amendment"

Sen. Rand Paul: Snowden’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ seeks “to defend the Fourth Amendment”

Sen. Rand Paul pushes back against the National Security Agency and its massive surveillance of telephone records, in an interview with Jake Tapper of CNN. […]

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You are the Terrorist (Video)

You are the Terrorist (Video)

“You are the Terrorist” German with English subtitles; chilling.

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Turkey
Learning the Wrong Lessons from Tahrir Square:  Erdogan Assaults Taksim in bid to break up Protests

Learning the Wrong Lessons from Tahrir Square: Erdogan Assaults Taksim in bid to break up Protests

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday launched an assault on the demonstrators in Taksim Square. It was a puzzling and desperate act, which threatened […]

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Afghanistan
The Government Endangered us with Foreign Quagmires; it’s the Bradley Mannings that might keep us safe (Madar)

The Government Endangered us with Foreign Quagmires; it’s the Bradley Mannings that might keep us safe (Madar)

Chase Madar writes at Tomdispatch.com The prosecution of Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ source inside the U.S. Army, will be pulling out all the stops when it calls […]

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The Dictator: Imagine if America was a Dictatorship (Video)

The Dictator: Imagine if America was a Dictatorship (Video)

The Dictator: Imagine if America was a dictatorship:

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Great Moments in Police Clearing of Protesters: Zucotti Park, Nov. 15, 2011 (Democracy Now! Video)

Great Moments in Police Clearing of Protesters: Zucotti Park, Nov. 15, 2011 (Democracy Now! Video)

Democracy Now! was the only media to do an extensive on the scene video report: “>

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Top Ten Ways the US Government will Smear, Slight Whistleblower Edward Snowden

Top Ten Ways the US Government will Smear, Slight Whistleblower Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden said that he stepped forward because he came to realize that the US government is engaged in invasions of Americans’ privacy on a […]

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