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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

H. Scott Prosterman

Censoring academic content does nothing to promote “a safe learning environment,” as Newsom’s signing statement concludes.

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Clouds rolled in  and wept tears on the field. Without wine, purple flowers cannot grow. The greenery provides  pleasant scenery for me today. For whose […]

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Happy Palestine Land Day: Israel Earmarks 10% of West Bank for Settlements: White

Ben White writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment: It has just come out that the Israeli military has earmarked ten percent of the […]

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Those who fervently believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim generally practice their furtive religion in obscure recesses of the Internet…

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Divided Arab League Won’t Call for al-Assad to Step Down

The Arab League is meeting in Baghdad for the first time in 22 years, in the absence of long-time fixtures such as Zein El Abidin […]

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Omar Khayyam (96): Against Astrology

The good and bad that are in human nature, the joy and grief that are in fate and destiny– do not attribute them to the […]

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Medvedev slams Romney for “Number one Enemy” Slur

Medvedev slams Romney for “Number one Enemy” Slur

Below, the USG Open Source Center translates an article from Russian about President Dmitry Medvedev’s reaction to Mitt Romney calling Russia the “number one geopolitical […]

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Khayyam, your body  is like a royal tent; your spirit is king and its residence is temporary. The angel of fate strikes this tent when […]

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