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Vance of Arabia: The Trump Administration’s Reality-TV “Peace” in Gaza
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Vance of Arabia: The Trump Administration’s Reality-TV “Peace” in Gaza

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Vice President J. D. Vance went out to the Middle East last week to show the MAGA […]

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The World confronts the Genocide Washington is trying to Bury

The World confronts the Genocide Washington is trying to Bury

10/28/2025 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

King Trump: Golfing while Rome Burns

King Trump: Golfing while Rome Burns

10/28/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Israeli Spy Chief Condemns Netanyahu for Iran Hype, Messianism

Israeli Spy Chief Condemns Netanyahu for Iran Hype, Messianism

Former head of Israeli domestic intelligence (Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, said Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are misleading […]

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Biden to Romney “Dude, you are so 1975” and “If you Plan war with Iran, tell us Now”

Biden to Romney “Dude, you are so 1975” and “If you Plan war with Iran, tell us Now”

Vice President Joe Biden attacked Mitt Romney’s foreign policy ideas on Thursday. Romney’s policies are to send tens of thousands of troops back into Iraq, […]

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India
A Full Spectrum Confrontation World? (Escobar)

A Full Spectrum Confrontation World? (Escobar)

Pepe Escobar writes at Tomdispatch.com: A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC Neoliberal Dragons, Eurasian Wet Dreams, and Robocop Fantasies By Pepe Escobar Goldman […]

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (107) “Not every withered Tulip is going to bloom Again”

Omar Khayyam (107) “Not every withered Tulip is going to bloom Again”

Have some wine, since you’ll be sleeping for a long time underground, lacking a best buddy, or a fast friend or lover. Be careful to […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Rubio Calls for War on Iran, Syria– as Israeli Army Rejects Strike

Rubio Calls for War on Iran, Syria– as Israeli Army Rejects Strike

GOP Vice-Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Wednesday called for unilateral US military action against Syria and Iran and blamed President Barack Obama for declining to […]

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Obama and Fallon Slow-Jam the Student Debt Crisis

Obama and Fallon Slow-Jam the Student Debt Crisis

President Barack Obama slow-jams the news with NBC Late Night’s Jimmy Fallon, slamming Republicans for doubling the interest on government Stafford student loans.

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Pakistan

CIA Drone Killing of Non-Combatants Detailed in British Court (Woods)

Chris Woods writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: A major case in the British High Court has revealed fresh evidence of civilian deaths during […]

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (105) “Wine is melted Rubies”

Omar Khayyam (105) “Wine is melted Rubies”

Wine is melted rubies, and the glass is like a mine. The carafe isĀ  the body, and the alcohol its soul. This crystal goblet that […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Top Ten Reasons Israel tried to Censor Bob Simon’s Report on Palestinian Christians

Top Ten Reasons Israel tried to Censor Bob Simon’s Report on Palestinian Christians

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren not only called the head of CBS news in an attempt to quash a report on the displacement of Palestinian Christians […]

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