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The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned
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The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned

Juan Cole

The bad guys included Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab bloc, along with China, India, and other nations still in thrall to Big Carbon

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West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

11/23/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of ArrestĀ Overseas

Why Israeli Soldiers and their Leaders are increasingly at Risk of ArrestĀ Overseas

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Egyptian Comedian Bassem Youssef on Kafkaesque Interrogation (CNN Video)

Egyptian Comedian Bassem Youssef on Kafkaesque Interrogation (CNN Video)

Bassem Youssef tells Christiane Amanpour about the 5-hour Kafkaesque interrogation he underwent after being summoned by the prosecutor-general. The humorless prosecutors essentially made a montage […]

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Jim Carrey:  Fox 'News' is "A media colostomy bag... a public health issue" (Video)

Jim Carrey: Fox ‘News’ is “A media colostomy bag… a public health issue” (Video)

Comedian Jim Carrey has hit back at Fox Cable News for its campaign of defamation in the wake of his release of a video parodying […]

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Why this and not that?  America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? America’s topsy turvy priorities

Why this and not that? I don’t understand my own country much of the time. For instance, in his first major public speech after resigning […]

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Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)

Ira Chernus writes at Tomdispatch.com Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his […]

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Egypt’s War on Satire:  Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

Egypt’s War on Satire: Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart

I have long held that the worst thing about religious fundamentalism is that it is humorless. And, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is proving me right. […]

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As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)

Recycled WMD charges: From Jamiol’s World

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How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

How We’re making a Frankenstein’s Monster of our Climate (Giesen)

Tom Giesen writes in a guest column at Informed Comment The option to avoid 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) of global warming – our […]

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Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes:  Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes: Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim

Pope Francis on Maundy Thursday declined to address enormous crowds. Instead he went to a prison to emulate Jesus’s act of humility before his crucifixion […]

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Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Vaccinations are not Harming our Children, but Coal sure is!

Yet again, researchers have found that there is no link between vaccines and autism. It is a myth, a hysteria, and a dangerous one, since […]

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