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Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians
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Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians

Juan Cole

They made a trip to the Philippines in November and Sajid Akram used an Indian passport, while Naveed used his Australian travel document.

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Soaring West Bank Violence is Fueled by Official Israeli Surrender to Settlers

Soaring West Bank Violence is Fueled by Official Israeli Surrender to Settlers

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Rebuking UC Berkeley over Suspension of Lecturer for Palestine Advocacy

Rebuking UC Berkeley over Suspension of Lecturer for Palestine Advocacy

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Pakistan
Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls' Education

Malala Yousafzai nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Starts Foundation for Girls’ Education

Malala Yousafzai has released two videos in the past few days, one before her surgery to put a plate in her skull, and after she […]

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Africa

US Covert Drone War in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia – Jan. Update (Woods et al.)

Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Yemen was hit by the highest number of airstrikes in […]

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Iran President accuses Speaker of Parliament of Corruption, as Labor Minister is Impeached

Iran President accuses Speaker of Parliament of Corruption, as Labor Minister is Impeached

With the Iranian presidential elections only 5 months away, Iranian politics is heating up. Outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday accused the family of the […]

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Iran
Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Natural Gas Platform Sinks

Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Natural Gas Platform Sinks

A $40 million platform unit in the Persian Gulf designed to increase Iran’s natural gas production sank last week. It was built with Iranian government […]

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Arab Spring
Will a declining America Start Having to Obey the same Rules as Everybody Else?  (Chomsky)

Will a declining America Start Having to Obey the same Rules as Everybody Else? (Chomsky)

Noam Chomsky writes at Tomdispatch.com: [This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges […]

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Syria
Syria: Rebels take Aleppo Airport Road; NYT: Obama Nixed Clinton/Petraeus Plan to Arm Rebels

Syria: Rebels take Aleppo Airport Road; NYT: Obama Nixed Clinton/Petraeus Plan to Arm Rebels

Syria’s revolutionaries are saying that they have taken a key Aleppo district, Sheikh Said, that enables them to block the road to the airport. The […]

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Obama Closing the Office that Had been charged with closing Guantanamo Bay (Colbert Report)

Obama Closing the Office that Had been charged with closing Guantanamo Bay (Colbert Report)

Stephen Colbert reports on the Obama administration’s closing of the office that was supposed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. The Colbert Report Get More: […]

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Egypt
Egyptian Cities Erupt in anti-Morsi Demonstrations

Egyptian Cities Erupt in anti-Morsi Demonstrations

Tens of thousands of Egyptians demonstrated around the country on Friday, despite cold, rainy weather in Alexandria and along the Canal zone. In Cairo itself, […]

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US politics
Matt Taibbi on Big Banks’ Lack of Accountability (Moyers Video Interview)

Matt Taibbi on Big Banks’ Lack of Accountability (Moyers Video Interview)

Bill Moyers interviews Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi on why banksters who clearly engaged in illegal activity that crashed the American economy have been held […]

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