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When Delay becomes Killing in Gaza: Wisdom from the Talmud
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When Delay becomes Killing in Gaza: Wisdom from the Talmud

Shamai Leibowitz

Rabbinic authorities derived a broad prohibition against all forms of destruction and waste

How the Middle Powers Cynically left Gaza to be Genocided

How the Middle Powers Cynically left Gaza to be Genocided

02/07/2026 By Ramzy Baroud

‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ hasn’t faded in Iran — it’s being actively eliminated

‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ hasn’t faded in Iran — it’s being actively eliminated

02/07/2026 By The Conversation

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How the US Pays off innocent Drone Victims (Currier)

How the US Pays off innocent Drone Victims (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica The U.S. drone war remains cloaked in secrecy, and as a result, questions swirl around it. Who exactly can be […]

Juan Cole

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The Real Reason for Climate Change Denial: Oil Cos. Would lose 60% of their Value

The Real Reason for Climate Change Denial: Oil Cos. Would lose 60% of their Value

HSBC estimates that if the world adopted the policies necessary to keep global warming to only 2 degrees C. (3.6 degrees F.), oil companies would […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq's New One Percent Gets Rich, fails to Establish Security (Baquba Bombing kills 20)

Iraq’s New One Percent Gets Rich, fails to Establish Security (Baquba Bombing kills 20)

Another deadly bombing was conducted this morning in Baquba, Iraq, killing 20 and wounding 60. Radicals detonated it outside a political rally for a small […]

Juan Cole

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UN, Host Countries, Running out of money for Syria Refugee Relief

UN, Host Countries, Running out of money for Syria Refugee Relief

The United Nations is warning that the vast scale of the Syrian refugee crisis is straining the resources of the UN, Jordan and Lebanon. Jordan […]

Juan Cole

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Homeless in the Shadow of High Tech (Moyer Video)

Homeless in the Shadow of High Tech (Moyer Video)

Bill Moyer investigates the phenomenon of homelessness and poverty in the high tech Mecca, San Jose, California. It turns out to be a good metaphor […]

Juan Cole

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How Corporate Media Consolidation has Corrupted our News (Democracy Now! Interview)

How Corporate Media Consolidation has Corrupted our News (Democracy Now! Interview)

Democracy Now! interviews the maker of “Shadows of Liberty,” a new film about how the concentration of ownership of news media in fewer and fewer […]

Juan Cole

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Bigots Smash Window of Iraqi-American Restaurant: Then . . . Vets come to Save the Day

Bigots Smash Window of Iraqi-American Restaurant: Then . . . Vets come to Save the Day

Vets, some of them having served in Iraq, come to eat at an Iraqi-American restaurant in Lowell to give them some business and make up […]

Juan Cole

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If N. Korea is the Threat, Why is all the War Talk about a Weak Iran?

If N. Korea is the Threat, Why is all the War Talk about a Weak Iran?

All the talk in Washington is about war on Iran, which poses no threat to the United States. But one never hears belligerence toward North […]

Juan Cole

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Can you Pass the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Quiz? (Rudolph)

Can you Pass the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Quiz? (Rudolph)

By Jeffrey Rudolph While Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community was a marginal presence in 1948, it has since grown into a meaningful social and political force. […]

Juan Cole

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