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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing
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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Dan Steinbock

As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

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Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

11/15/2025 By Richard Drake

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

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Islamophobia
Hating Muslims in America

Hating Muslims in America

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the incoming chair of the House committee on Homeland Security has announced that he will hold hearings into the ‘radicalization’ of […]

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Iraq
Iraq’s al-Maliki Rebuffed on Incomplete Cabinet

Iraq’s al-Maliki Rebuffed on Incomplete Cabinet

Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that prospective Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki faced severe opposition on Monday to his insistence on announcing the formation of a government […]

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Israel/ Palestine
HRW on Israeli Racial Discrimination in West Bank

HRW on Israeli Racial Discrimination in West Bank

Human Rights Watch has issued a new report on racial discrimination against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. HRW writes: ‘Israel operates a two-tier system […]

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Afghanistan
Taliban Strike Qunduz, Kabul, Kill 16

Taliban Strike Qunduz, Kabul, Kill 16

Taliban or other radicals showed Sunday that they could strike far from their strongholds in the south and east of Afghanistan. They hit the capital, […]

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Senate Repeal of DADT in Global Context

Senate Repeal of DADT in Global Context

Conservative religious fanatics lost on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and anti-gay discrimination. The scary thing is, that since it is clear that fear-mongering on gays […]

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Pakistan
Lawsuit over Drones in Pakistan forces CIA Station Chief to Flee

Lawsuit over Drones in Pakistan forces CIA Station Chief to Flee

The Guardian reports that a lawsuit brought by a Pakistani journalist over wrongful deaths in drone strikes has forced the CIA station chief in Islamabad […]

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Iraq
Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Iraqi authorities are going for the trifecta. They are finally forming a new government, nine months after the March parliamentary elections, to be headed by […]

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Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

The Republican Party has since September 11, 2001, been absolutely insufferable in invoking those attacks at every possible moment for every possible reason, and in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Movement for Palestinian State gains International Momentum, to Dismay of US Congress

Movement for Palestinian State gains International Momentum, to Dismay of US Congress

Palestinian authorities on Thursday protested the resolution passed by the US congress on Wednesday condemning movement toward a unilateral declaration by Palestinians of a Palestinian […]

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