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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing
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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Dan Steinbock

As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

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Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

11/15/2025 By Richard Drake

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

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10,000 Syrian Refugees Trapped on Iraq & Turkish Borders

10,000 Syrian Refugees Trapped on Iraq & Turkish Borders

Human Rights Watch is calling on Iraq and Turkey to open their borders in Syria’s northeast to allow the passage of some 10,000 Syrian refugees, […]

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Malala Yousufzai taken to UK for Treatment; and Pakistan’s Education Shame

Malala Yousufzai taken to UK for Treatment; and Pakistan’s Education Shame

Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai, shot in the head by the Taliban in the Swat Valley of Pakistan for demanding the right to an education, is being […]

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Colbert on Romney (Meet the Press, Video)

Colbert on Romney (Meet the Press, Video)

Comedian Stephen Colbert appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday to assess GOP standard bearer Mitt Romney: “A shambling mound of weakness” until the debate; […]

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The Republican Assault on Minority Voting Rights (Goulka)

The Republican Assault on Minority Voting Rights (Goulka)

Jeremiah Goulka writes at Tomdispatch.com Of Republicans and Race Cards: Why I Used to Believe That Voter ID Laws Really Were Just Common Sense Democrats […]

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Pakistan: Imran Khan’s march brings global attention to CIA drone strikes (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: US peace activists joined politicians, lawyers and the world’s press on Sunday as they attempted […]

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Turkey Slams UN on Syria, Implies NATO should Act; Syria bans Turkish Airlines

Turkey Slams UN on Syria, Implies NATO should Act; Syria bans Turkish Airlines

Tensions between Turkey and Syria are at an all-time high, with the two countries trading occasional light artillery barrages at the border and massing tanks […]

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Conservative Media Spin Biden-Ryan Debate (Young Turks)

Conservative Media Spin Biden-Ryan Debate (Young Turks)

The Young Turks program on Current TV discusses the conservative spinning of the Biden-Ryan debate. No, CNN, Ryan did not win the debate (you over-represented […]

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On Libya, Biden Let Ryan Get Away with Murder (Smith)

On Libya, Biden Let Ryan Get Away with Murder (Smith)

Fact-Check: Is Obama’s Foreign Policy “Unraveling”? by Christopher C. Smith In Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate, Paul Ryan claimed that the recent terrorist attack on the […]

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US Classifies Torture Testimonies of accused al-Qaeda Prisoners (Currier)

US Classifies Torture Testimonies of accused al-Qaeda Prisoners (Currier)

Still Classified: Terror Suspects’ Own Accounts of Their Abuse by Cora Currier, writing at ProPublica In a motion unsealed last week, the government proposed new […]

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