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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change
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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change

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the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

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Annals of Settler Colonialism: British Atrocities in Post-War Kenya

Annals of Settler Colonialism: British Atrocities in Post-War Kenya

The anti-colonial movement in Kenya of the 1950s was mythologized by the British as a shadowy ‘Mau-Mau,’ an irrational outbreak of aimless hatred. In fact, […]

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What Juan is Tweeting Today (Readings on Middle East, Environment)

What Juan is Tweeting Today (Readings on Middle East, Environment)

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Top Ten Things Mitt Romney Gets Wrong about US Middle East Policy

Top Ten Things Mitt Romney Gets Wrong about US Middle East Policy

Gov. Romney published an op-ed on Monday criticizing President Obama’s Middle East policies. Aside from urging ‘strength,’ however, Romney offers no concrete alternative. And, he […]

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (337) “I venerate the finest vintage so as to avoid self-worship”

Omar Khayyam (337) “I venerate the finest vintage so as to avoid self-worship”

I sip at wine, but never to get drunk, and I assail no one, save for my  glass. I venerate the finest vintage so as […]

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Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (6): German Namibia #savagesunite

In an early instance of Neoliberalism, the German concentration camps for the remnants of the genocided Herero were sometimes given to private companies to run […]

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Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.;  Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

Health-Killing Coal Plant Finally Closes in Alexandria, Va.; Virginia: Put in Wind Turbines!

A notorious polluting coal plant has finally been closed in Alexandria, Va. It had been giving locals lung and heart problems for years. Ironically, the […]

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Libya
Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

Did Bashar al-Assad Betray Qaddafi?

The polemicists of the fringe left and the far right who depict the Baathist regime in Syria as a beleagured victim of Western plotting may […]

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (273) “Do good, and cast it upon the waters”

Omar Khayyam (273) “Do good, and cast it upon the waters”

My sweetheart —            may she live as long  as my heartbreak —         today began her kindnesses  […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Annals of Settler Colonialism (5): German Namibia #savagesunite

Annals of Settler Colonialism (5): German Namibia #savagesunite

The German settlers and authorities round up 13,000 of the remaining Herero. They put them in concentration camps, where 4,000 died of mistreatment. Almost all […]

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