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Assaults on US Academic Freedom:  Acquiescence and Resistance
Academic Freedom

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

H. Scott Prosterman

Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history

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Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

11/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

11/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Israeli Forces into Gaza City; Hamas Fighters Brace for Guerrilla Actions

Israeli Forces into Gaza City; Hamas Fighters Brace for Guerrilla Actions

Israeli war planes bombed densely populated Gaza 12 times Sunday night through Monday morning, even as Israeli reservists were sent into the territory and troops […]

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Only a "For America" PAC Can Stop the Madness

Only a "For America" PAC Can Stop the Madness

I want to follow up today on my postings over the weekend on how organizing to defend progressive congressional representatives and punish reactionary ones is […]

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Monday Last Day: 2008 Weblog Awards

Monday Last Day: 2008 Weblog Awards

Update: We’re way behind, progressive blogosphere. Today is the last day to make a push. You can vote again if it has been 24 hours. […]

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Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime

This letter of attorneys and academics appeared in the Times of London on Sunday. I suggest that all bloggers who agree with it just reprint […]

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Massive Protests in London, Barcelona

Massive Protests in London, Barcelona

Some videoblogging for a snowy Sunday (where I am). Israel renewed its strikes and shelling against targets in densely-populated Gaza on Sunday morning. Some 850 […]

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Save the Congresspersons, Save the World

Save the Congresspersons, Save the World

Regarding the Congressional resolution on Gaza, The breakdown of the vote is here. (h/t Antiwar.com. You may be looking at an endangered species list.Cont’d . […]

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On the Uselessness of Street Protest; And the Usefulness of Web 2.0 Lobbying

On the Uselessness of Street Protest; And the Usefulness of Web 2.0 Lobbying

This kind of headline about large street protests against the Israeli attack on Gaza annoys me no end. The mechanisms are well known whereby the […]

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Lind: If Israel Bombed Iran US Army in Iraq Could be Lost

Lind: If Israel Bombed Iran US Army in Iraq Could be Lost

Iran’s PressTv is alleging that its building in Gaza took Israeli fire, wounding two of its employees. An Israeli spokesman denied that the building had […]

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Lind: If Israel Bombed Iran US Army in Iraq Could be Lost

Lind: If Israel Bombed Iran US Army in Iraq Could be Lost

Iran’s PressTv is alleging that its building in Gaza took Israeli fire, wounding two of its employees. An Israeli spokesman denied that the building had […]

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