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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember
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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

Fariba Amini

then he got involved in the student movement. It was the height of the Vietnam war.

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Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide

11/13/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

11/13/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Iraq War
Cole, ACLU, Sue CIA, FBI seeking Bloggergate Documents

Cole, ACLU, Sue CIA, FBI seeking Bloggergate Documents

Spencer Ackerman at Wired reports on the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit launched on my behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union against the CIA, […]

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Is Murdoch’s Media Empire a Cult?

Is Murdoch’s Media Empire a Cult?

The scandals besetting billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s British properties simply cannot be ignored in the United States. Murdoch owns a newspaper of record, the […]

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Afghanistan
Ahmad Wali Karzai Killing Points to More Instability

Ahmad Wali Karzai Killing Points to More Instability

The murder Tuesday of Ahmad Wali Karzai, the behind-the-scenes authority over Qandahar province and brother of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, shows the continued instability in […]

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Syria
Clinton: al-Asad has lost Legitimacy after Mobs Storm US, French Embassies

Clinton: al-Asad has lost Legitimacy after Mobs Storm US, French Embassies

The mob attacks on the US and French embassies by ‘pro-regime elements’ in Damascus on Monday provoked a heated response from Secretary of State Hillary […]

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Egypt
Today's Top 5 Crises in the 2011 Arab Revolutions

Today’s Top 5 Crises in the 2011 Arab Revolutions

1. The protest movement in Egypt, which started up in earnest again last Friday, is expanding. Thousands were camped out in Tahrir Square in downtown […]

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al-Qaeda
On Panetta and Defeating al-Qaeda

On Panetta and Defeating al-Qaeda

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on his arrival in Kabul that the US could be on the verge of defeating al-Qaeda, and could do […]

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Egypt
Egyptian Revolution 2.0?

Egyptian Revolution 2.0?

Thousands of protesters came back to Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday. Despite the sometimes dark depictions of continuing unrest in the Western press, from all […]

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Anthony Case Index

Anthony Case Index

Number of murders in US in 2009: 13,636 Number of murders committed by firearm: 9,146 Number of alleged murders discussed for past 3 years by […]

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Yemen
Yemen's Saleh Addresses Nation from Hospital Bed

Yemen’s Saleh Addresses Nation from Hospital Bed

Badly wounded and burned Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared on Yemeni television on Thursday in a pre-recorded address that reiterated his intent to hold […]

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