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Was Colonialism a Crime?  Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule
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Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule

Juan Cole

Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth

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West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

12/26/2025 By The Conversation

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

12/26/2025 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Top Six Things Congress would do if they Cared if we are Healthy

Top Six Things Congress would do if they Cared if we are Healthy

Health care is essential, and no American should be without insurance to pay for it. But prevention of diseases and injuries is as important as […]

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Low Life Expectancy tracks with Opposition to Obamacare (Map)

Low Life Expectancy tracks with Opposition to Obamacare (Map)

Life expectancy in the United States by state (2009 statistics): Hawaii has the longest life expectancy among the states, so maybe Obama thought it isn’t […]

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Patriotism and PTSD (Levinson)

Patriotism and PTSD (Levinson)

Nan Levinson writes at Tomdispatch.com: Mad, Bad, Sad  What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers By Nan Levinson “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” […]

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Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in direction of Sub-Saharan Africa

Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in direction of Sub-Saharan Africa

Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states […]

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Supreme Courts and Democracy in Egypt, Pakistan and the United States

Supreme Courts and Democracy in Egypt, Pakistan and the United States

As the US Supreme Court rules on the universal health care plan, it is worth considering that all of a sudden the courts are playing […]

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Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)

Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)

Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states […]

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Yemen

Graphs of Death: US Drone Strikes Visualized (Pegg)

David Pegg writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism These graphs accurately reflect the Bureau’s data on CIA drone strikes in Pakistan to the most […]

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Global Warming and Colorado's Great Fire

Global Warming and Colorado’s Great Fire

Weather is specific events, climate is the long-term pattern. Catastrophes like the forest fire in Colorado that has expelled 32,000 people from their homes are […]

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Letter to President Obama on Yemen:  More Aid, Fewer Drones, Please

Letter to President Obama on Yemen: More Aid, Fewer Drones, Please

The Atlantic Council and The Project on Middle East Democracy are worried about the drift in Obama administration policy on Yemen, about the lack of […]

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