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Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
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Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

Norman Solomon

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

08/26/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

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After a Hiatus, a President at NAACP

After a Hiatus, a President at NAACP

AP provides video of a memorable moment in President Barack Obama’s address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: What a difference […]

Juan Cole

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Mullen: Fighting for two Years in Afghanistan; Clinton: Distinctions among Taliban

Mullen: Fighting for two Years in Afghanistan; Clinton: Distinctions among Taliban

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged in a major foreign policy speech on Wednesday that: ‘ “Today we and our Afghan allies stand ready to […]

Juan Cole

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Zawahiri Calls on Pakistani Public to support Holy War vigilantes

Zawahiri Calls on Pakistani Public to support Holy War vigilantes

The USG Open Source Center transcribes the call by the number two man in al-Qaeda for the Pakistani public to support the Pakistani Taliban. (They […]

Juan Cole

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Conservative Hypocrisy on Race & Sotomayor

Conservative Hypocrisy on Race & Sotomayor

The tactic of congressional conservatives, of portraying Sonia Sotomayor as a reverse racist for her ‘wise Latina’ comment, has so many holes in it that […]

Juan Cole

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Israel in Trouble with Europe

Israel in Trouble with Europe

Signs are appearing in Europe that the Israeli hawks are finding it more difficult to operate with impunity. Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli military attack […]

Juan Cole

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Rafsanjani to Lead Friday Prayers; Rezai Calls for Political Compromise; Montazeri Implies Ahmadinejad’s Presidency Illegitimate

Rafsanjani to Lead Friday Prayers; Rezai Calls for Political Compromise; Montazeri Implies Ahmadinejad’s Presidency Illegitimate

Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will deliver a Friday prayers address in Tehran this week. A behind the scenes backer of the opposition candidate for […]

Juan Cole

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Truth Commission Needed to Examine Cheney, Assassination Squads, Cover-Ups

Truth Commission Needed to Examine Cheney, Assassination Squads, Cover-Ups

It turns out that the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta cancelled, and which former VP Richard Bruce Cheney ordered hidden from Congress, was in […]

Juan Cole

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Lyons: Spectre of Khomeini as religious radical still stalks Iran

Lyons: Spectre of Khomeini as religious radical still stalks Iran

Jonathan Lyons writes in a guest editorial for IC: The Western world knows the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a political radical, the militant revolutionary […]

Juan Cole

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10 Killed in Bombings, Dozens Wounded; Al-Maliki Rejects Reconciliation with Baathists; Sadrists Block British in South

10 Killed in Bombings, Dozens Wounded; Al-Maliki Rejects Reconciliation with Baathists; Sadrists Block British in South

Update: Guerrillas set off bombs outside churches in Baghdad on Sunday, wounding 7 persons. Attacks on Christians are a hallmark of the extremist Salafi groups […]

Juan Cole

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