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How many people has ICE maimed, killed or Disappeared in Minnesota?
Asian-Americans

How many people has ICE maimed, killed or Disappeared in Minnesota?

Janelle Carlson

Many of those detained are left without their medication which can lead to life-threatening complications

What will a rebuilt Gaza look like? The competing visions for the Strip’s future

What will a rebuilt Gaza look like? The competing visions for the Strip’s future

02/05/2026 By The Conversation

The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors

Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors

A suppressed historical episode has emerged into the light of day in such a way as to deeply embarrass Israel and the United States in […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban Attack Qandahar Airfield; Parliament goes on Strike

Taliban Attack Qandahar Airfield; Parliament goes on Strike

Guerrillas fired mortar shells and used small arms to attack the major US military base in south Afghanistan, Qandahar Airfield, on Saturday. The operation was […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Pakistan's Social Media Ban Endangers Economic Growth

Pakistan’s Social Media Ban Endangers Economic Growth

The Lahore High Court’s ban on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and some other social media sites was supported on Friday in Pakistan by rallies of students, […]

Juan Cole

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Iran Threatens to Pull out of Nuclear Deal over new UN Sanctions

Iran Threatens to Pull out of Nuclear Deal over new UN Sanctions

Iranian member of parliament Mohammad Reza Bahonar warned Thursday that “If (the West) issues a new resolution against Iran, we will not be committed to […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Other Gratuitously Offensive Draw-a-Cartoon Days

Top Ten Other Gratuitously Offensive Draw-a-Cartoon Days

The juvenile “draw Muhammad” day has generally been avoided by professional editorial cartoonists. One Islamophobic theme apparent in the writing on it is that Muslims […]

Juan Cole

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Angry Tea Partiers are not the Moral Equivalent of Compassionate Democrats

Angry Tea Partiers are not the Moral Equivalent of Compassionate Democrats

Just to enter an objection to the increasing tendency of the mainstream media to equate the Tea Party on the American right wing with supposedly […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Apartheid Israel, Bunker Israel:  Elvis Costello and Noam Chomsky

Apartheid Israel, Bunker Israel: Elvis Costello and Noam Chomsky

The repercussions of the brutal shooting-fish-in-a-barrel Gaza War, of the continued Israeli siege and boycott of the Gaza Strip, and of the vigorous colonization of […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Kabul Blast Kills 19, Wounds 52; 5 US Troops Dead

Kabul Blast Kills 19, Wounds 52; 5 US Troops Dead

The BBC is reporting that Afghan guerrillas deployed a suicide car bomb against a NATO military convoy in west Kabul near the parliament building Tuesday […]

Juan Cole

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Iran Announces Breakthrough Nuclear Exchange Deal

Iran Announces Breakthrough Nuclear Exchange Deal

Veteran Iran observer Borzou Daragahi reports on the agreement just announced by Iran and Turkey on the disposition of Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium. Under […]

Juan Cole

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