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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

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Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence

A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

01/16/2026 By Binoy Kampmark

Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

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Afghanistan
77 US troops Wounded in Truck Bombing of Base in Wardak; Top Reasons US should get out of Afghanistan

77 US troops Wounded in Truck Bombing of Base in Wardak; Top Reasons US should get out of Afghanistan

Never before in the Afghanistan War, the longest-running military conflict in US history, have so many US troops been wounded in one day. Some 5 […]

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al-Qaeda
Ten Years after 9/11, Do the Arabs value Democracy more than We do?

Ten Years after 9/11, Do the Arabs value Democracy more than We do?

The September 11 attacks have been revealed as a last gasp of a fading, cult-like twentieth-century vision, not as the wave of the future. They […]

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Egypt
State of Alert in Egypt after Breach at Israeli Embassy

State of Alert in Egypt after Breach at Israeli Embassy

The assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday represented a dangerous escalation of tensions between the protesters and the transitional regime. The military […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
A tale of two Afghan Leaders, before and after 9/11

A tale of two Afghan Leaders, before and after 9/11

Ten years ago, a horrific suicide bombing carried out by Algerian al-Qaeda operatives posing as journalists snuffed out the life of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Sadrists to Demonstrate in Baghdad against US Troops Remaining

Sadrists to Demonstrate in Baghdad against US Troops Remaining

One of the major consequences of the September 11 attacks ten years ago was that members of the Bush administration decided to “take advantage” of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Turkey Crisis Provokes Israeli Army Anger at Lieberman

Turkey Crisis Provokes Israeli Army Anger at Lieberman

The crisis between Turkey and Israel deepened on Monday, allegedly provoking severe tensions between the Israeli officer corps and the far right-wing Minister of Foreign […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Accord Reached for Peaceful Entry of Bani Walid?

Accord Reached for Peaceful Entry of Bani Walid?

Aljazeera Arabic is reporting a breakthrough in the negotiations between the new government in Tripoli and the elders of the city of Bani Walid, a […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Top Ten Good News Green Energy Stories

Top Ten Good News Green Energy Stories

Here are the week’s top ten energy good news stories. 1. A Japanese technical innovation has the potential to double or triple the power generated […]

Juan Cole

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China offered Qaddafi Armaments in midst of war

China offered Qaddafi Armaments in midst of war

People who favored saving the civilian populations of Benghazi and other eastern Libyan cities from Qaddafi’s tanks and artillery have often been termed “interventionists.” But […]

Juan Cole

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