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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption

Dan Steinbock

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms

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Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

12/15/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

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Attack on US Embassy in Istanbul

Attack on US Embassy in Istanbul

Six are dead in a terrorist attack on the US Embassy in Istanbul. The dead were 3 Turkish policemen and the three attackers, who appear […]

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1 GI Killed, 5 Wounded in Iraq; Rubaie’s Comments Roil McCain Campaign

1 GI Killed, 5 Wounded in Iraq; Rubaie’s Comments Roil McCain Campaign

The statements of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and National Security Counsellor Muwaffaq Rubaie about the need for a timetable for US troop withdrawal may have […]

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Iraq
Genetically Modified Seeds not Used in Iraq

Genetically Modified Seeds not Used in Iraq

A US observer with experience on the ground in Iraq writes with regard my link on Sunday to a piece about Monsanto and hooking Iraqi […]

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Maliki and Timetable for US Withdrawal

Maliki and Timetable for US Withdrawal

A White House spokesman emphasized that US-Iraqi talks on a Status of Forces Agreement do not include mention of a hard date for US withdrawal. […]

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Walleser: The List: Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies

Walleser: The List: Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies

In the months since my last post “On Mercy and Redress,” The List : Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies has grown in scope as well […]

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NYT: Napoleon’s Egypt in Paper

NYT: Napoleon’s Egypt in Paper

Napoleon’s Egyptgot a notice in the NYT “Paperback Row” by Elsa Dixler. ‘NAPOLEON’S EGYPT: Invading the Middle East, by Juan Cole. (Palgrave Macmillan, $16.95.) Napoleon’s […]

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More on Kabul Bombing; String of Bombs Hits Karachi

More on Kabul Bombing; String of Bombs Hits Karachi

Barnett Rubin has extensive comments on the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. The toll has risen to 41 dead, 147 wounded. Aljazeera International […]

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Bombings in Islamabad, Kabul

Bombings in Islamabad, Kabul

Two Iraq-style suicide bombings hit South Asia in the past 24 hours. On Sunday, a suicide bomber hit a police checkpoint in Islamabad, the capital […]

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Zogby: Obama Leads in Electoral College 273-158; Barr Badly Hurting McCain

Zogby: Obama Leads in Electoral College 273-158; Barr Badly Hurting McCain

Zogby reports: July 06, 2008 Zogby Poll: Building Mo-bama! Democrat Leads McCain in Electoral College Tally, 273-158 The Democrat also leads 44% to 38% in […]

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