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The Ecocide of Gaza
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The Ecocide of Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Well before October 7, 2023, the Gaza Strip had progressively been isolated from the West Bank and the outside world overall

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“All the Saints and Sages:”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25

11/25/2025 By Juan Cole

In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

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Egypt
Egypt: Military announces 'War on Terror,' Calls for Massive Demos Against Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt: Military announces ‘War on Terror,’ Calls for Massive Demos Against Muslim Brotherhood

Here are two videos from AFP that help explain all those people milling in the street today in Egypt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Minister […]

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Tunisia
Tunisia Plunged into Crisis by Second Political Assassination

Tunisia Plunged into Crisis by Second Political Assassination

The assassination Thursday of opposition member of parliament Mohamed Brahmi (from the small far left Popular Front coalition) shook the country for the second time […]

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Drones
Pakistan: Civilian Drone Casualties from Poor US Intelligence: Gen. Shah (Woods)

Pakistan: Civilian Drone Casualties from Poor US Intelligence: Gen. Shah (Woods)

Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: US officials are claiming that an internal Pakistani assessment of civilian deaths from US drone strikes […]

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Domestic Surveillance
What Congress Could do about NSA Spying if It were Serving the People (Brandeisky)

What Congress Could do about NSA Spying if It were Serving the People (Brandeisky)

Kara Brandeisky writes at ProPublica: Although the House defeated a measure that would have defunded the bulk phone metadata collection program, the narrow 205-217 vote […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Congress betrays vow to Uphold Constitution, abrogates 4th Amendment; Snowden is Better

Congress betrays vow to Uphold Constitution, abrogates 4th Amendment; Snowden is Better

The US House of Representatives narrowly declined on Wednesday to deny funding for National Security Agency collection and storage of millions of Americans’ phone records. […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Top Ten Things Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner has said that are worse than Sexting

Top Ten Things Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner has said that are worse than Sexting

Reprint Edition: The real scandal surrounding Anthony Weiner is that he is bigoted against Palestinians and used to misuse his position in Congress to support […]

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Israel

Israel’s Newly Multi-Cultural Army Stirs Controversy: Ultra-Orthodox Jews & Palestinian-Israeli Christians (Goldman)

Shalom Goldman writes at IslamiCommentary: Shalom Goldman A report by the Times of Israel yesterday said religious opponents were reciting psalms, blowing the ram’s horn, […]

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Egypt
A Tale of Two Bombings: Libya too Weak, Egypt too Strong

A Tale of Two Bombings: Libya too Weak, Egypt too Strong

On Tuesday, someone set up a Soviet-vintage 107 mortar launcher in a car outside the five-star Corinthia hotel in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, and lobbed a […]

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al-Qaeda
Pakistan:  20% of US Drone Victims are Civilians, 12% are Children (Woods)

Pakistan: 20% of US Drone Victims are Civilians, 12% are Children (Woods)

Exclusive: Leaked Pakistani report confirms high civilian death toll in CIA drone strikes Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: A secret document […]

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