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California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers
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California’s New Law Outlawing Criticism of Israel Quashes Academic Freedom, Criminalizes Teachers

H. Scott Prosterman

Positioned and disguised as a bill to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism expressions, it is really an attack on academic freedom

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“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30

“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30

12/22/2025 By Juan Cole

Climate Breakdown: Even “Weak” Cyclones cause Fatal Flooding as Oceans Heat Up

Climate Breakdown: Even “Weak” Cyclones cause Fatal Flooding as Oceans Heat Up

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Mousavi Said Calling for General Strike; Hard Liners Call for his Arrest

Mousavi Said Calling for General Strike; Hard Liners Call for his Arrest

In what may be a major development, it is being alleged that Iranian opposition leader Mir Hosain Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard are calling […]

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Saddam, the FBI and Cliocide in Iraq

Saddam, the FBI and Cliocide in Iraq

Joyce Battle (with help from Brendan McQuade) has posted twenty interviews of Saddam Hussein by the FBI to the National Security Archives at George Washington […]

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Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big Oil

Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big Oil

Dick Cheney reacted to the cessation of unilateral US patrols of major cities in Iraq, saying that he had concerns that the “insurgents” might launch […]

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US Forces Launch Helmand Campaign; Pakistani Public turns Against Taliban but Still Rejects US Intervention

US Forces Launch Helmand Campaign; Pakistani Public turns Against Taliban but Still Rejects US Intervention

Some 4,000 US military personnel and 650 Afghan troops are launching an assault on Taliban positions in Helmand Province, with an aim to ‘take, clear […]

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Iran: Mousavi Remains Defiant; Journalists Held

Iran: Mousavi Remains Defiant; Journalists Held

Reuters reports that Iranian opposition leader Mir Hosain Mousavi is continuing to assert that the newly formed second-term government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is illegitimate. […]

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Coda: Final Dispatch from Tehran

Coda: Final Dispatch from Tehran

This message was received by email from Tehran three hours ago. I have anonymized it and made a couple of orthographical corrections and am passing […]

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Death Toll in Kirkuk Rises to 33; Growing Arab-Kurdish Violence Threatens Stability of Iraq; 4 US Troops Killed

Death Toll in Kirkuk Rises to 33; Growing Arab-Kurdish Violence Threatens Stability of Iraq; 4 US Troops Killed

The casualty toll in the Kirkuk bombing on Tuesday has risen to 33, with about 100 injured. Four US troops were killed in Iraq on […]

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With a Whimper, not a Bang; A Milestone on the Way to the End of American Iraq

With a Whimper, not a Bang; A Milestone on the Way to the End of American Iraq

T.S. Eliot wrote at the end of “Hollow Men” in 1926, “This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.” […]

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Sunday’s Protest March Broken Up; Rafsanjani Defers to Khamenei

Sunday’s Protest March Broken Up; Rafsanjani Defers to Khamenei

The phase of mass protest in the aftermath of the controversial election results of June 12 has drawn to a close for the moment. Movement […]

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