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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia
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UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia

Juan Cole

The bad news is that in October and November 2025, “the majority of the population continued to face high levels of acute food insecurity

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Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

12/21/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

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US politics
How not to Cover a Mass Murder (Charlie Brooker Video)

How not to Cover a Mass Murder (Charlie Brooker Video)

Charlie Brooker and a forensic psychiatrist give the television news media tips on how and how not to cover a mass murder. Takeaway: Don’t obsess […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Displaced again, to Camps in Lebanon

Palestinians Displaced again, to Camps in Lebanon

One of the horrible things about being stateless is that you are a flying Dutchman, never assured of being able to live in your own […]

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Russia
Videos on the Present and Past of Chechnya

Videos on the Present and Past of Chechnya

Here are some videos for Saturday viewing that give a sense of the recent tragic history of Chechnya and of Russian policy toward it today. […]

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al-Qaeda
Fathers and Sons and Chechnya

Fathers and Sons and Chechnya

The anger and embarrassment visible in the interviews given on Friday by the uncle and the aunt of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston […]

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Afghanistan
Report: Highest US Officials Responsible for Use of Torture (Plus Daily Show Video)

Report: Highest US Officials Responsible for Use of Torture (Plus Daily Show Video)

The political reality of the United States in the world is that of blowback. Blowback is a term of art in the intelligence community for […]

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Egypt
The New Muslim World: Dictators on Trial

The New Muslim World: Dictators on Trial

The Muslim world has now witnessed several instances of a former dictator being exiled under threat of prosecution or actually being forced to appear in […]

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Environment
Small Government: Texas Fertilizer Plant that blew up not inspected for years

Small Government: Texas Fertilizer Plant that blew up not inspected for years

The Texas fertilizer plant that suffered a massive explosion had not been subject to an OSHA inspection for many years. The current American obsession with […]

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Islamophobia
CNN Fail:  Imaginary “Dark Males,” “Accents,” and “Arrests” Haunt Reporters

CNN Fail: Imaginary “Dark Males,” “Accents,” and “Arrests” Haunt Reporters

Between about 1:00 pm and 2:40 pm ET on Wednesday, April 17, the CNN news team was at the worst I’ve ever seen them. The […]

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Islam
Top Ten Ways Islamic Law forbids Terrorism

Top Ten Ways Islamic Law forbids Terrorism

Erik Rush and others who hastened to scapegoat Muslims for the Boston Marathon bombing are ignorant of the religion. I can’t understand why people who […]

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