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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran
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Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran

Mohammad Eslami

Netanyahu traveled to Florida for an extended meeting with President Donald Trump, and the conversation focused heavily on Iran

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Why is the United States Drawn to War?

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

12/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Literature from Islamic Societies embraced homoerotic Love until the 19th century. What happened?

Literature from Islamic Societies embraced homoerotic Love until the 19th century. What happened?

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Step on it! Impala leaps into truck to escape cheetahs (Video)

Step on it! Impala leaps into truck to escape cheetahs (Video)

Here is the video from South Africa:

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Egypt
The Rebellion Movement Denounces Mansour’s Constitutional Principles as Dictatorial

The Rebellion Movement Denounces Mansour’s Constitutional Principles as Dictatorial

If the Egyptian military and judicial elite thought that they could use the youthful Rebellion Movement, which put three or four million demonstrators in the […]

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Government surveillance
Argentina's President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage gave me Chills down my Spine

Argentina’s President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage gave me Chills down my Spine

The relationship between the United States and Latin America may have just plunged to its lowest level since the 1910s and 1920s, the height of […]

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Egypt

Egypt: A People’s Revolution, Not a Crisis or Coup (Nawal El Saadawi)

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi writes at IslamiCommentary (translated by miriam cooke) Every revolution in history has had its counter-revolution. Most recently, internal and […]

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al-Qaeda
FBI Discriminates Against American Muslims & lets White Terrorists Off the Hook (Harwood)

FBI Discriminates Against American Muslims & lets White Terrorists Off the Hook (Harwood)

Matthew Harwood writes at Tomdispatch: The evangelical Christians of Greenville County, South Carolina, are afraid. There has been talk of informants and undercover agents luring […]

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Egypt
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Calls for ‘Uprising’ as Plan for Elections is Announced

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Calls for ‘Uprising’ as Plan for Elections is Announced

The killing of over 50 Egyptians outside the Republican Guards Barracks on Monday morning continued to roil the country on Monday, as the Freedom and […]

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Domestic Surveillance
Snowden:  I acted because Domestic Spying actually worsened under Obama

Snowden: I acted because Domestic Spying actually worsened under Obama

The Guardian has released part two of the Hong Kong interview with Edward Snowden, in which he clarifies his reasons for going public. He talks […]

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US politics
Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay Concentration Camp procedure

Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay Concentration Camp procedure

There are 120 prisoners at the extra-legal concentration camp at Guantanamo Bey. 44 are on hunger strike and being force-fed against their will, in contravention […]

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Egypt
Egypt: Over 50 dead in Brotherhood-Army Clash; Baha-al-Din proposed PM; Thousands support Gov’t

Egypt: Over 50 dead in Brotherhood-Army Clash; Baha-al-Din proposed PM; Thousands support Gov’t

Update: The death toll in the deadly incident outside the Republican Guards barracks in Cairo has risen to over 50, with 300 wounded. Firm details […]

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