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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love
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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love

Janelle Carlson

The federal government has threatened to starve Minnesota by cutting off SNAP, WIC and other USDA funded programs as retribution.

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

01/17/2026 By Human Rights Watch

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

01/17/2026 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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White: UK Deportation of Yezza "Orwellian"

White: UK Deportation of Yezza "Orwellian"

Ben White writes from Nottingham, UK with a guest editorial: “I don’t like to use clichés, but this is really Orwellian”. So said my friend […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
War without End

War without End

Hoda Abdel Hamid of Aljazeera English has made a multi-part documentary on the Iraq conflict from January, 2006, through the present, entitled “War Without End.” […]

Juan Cole

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Trotta: Take Obama Out

Trotta: Take Obama Out

Liz Trotta, a veteran journalist who helped pioneer a place for women at the front as war correspondents, was being interviewed on Fox News on […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Sistani Opposes SOFA; "As Long as he is Alive; Al-Maliki Advisor seems to, Too; 5 Killed, 22 Injured in Baghdad

Sistani Opposes SOFA; "As Long as he is Alive; Al-Maliki Advisor seems to, Too; 5 Killed, 22 Injured in Baghdad

Mark Kukis at Time reports on Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s insistence with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that Iraq recover its sovereignty on all levels. The […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Memorial Day, 2008

Memorial Day, 2008

Memorial Day is about honoring those who have sacrificed themselves for the nation, in our armed forces. We cannot honor them properly unless we know […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Sistani Forbids Feeding Americans; Warns against Security Agreement; Hundreds of Sadrists Arrested

Sistani Forbids Feeding Americans; Warns against Security Agreement; Hundreds of Sadrists Arrested

Fars News reproduces in Persian on May 24, 2008, another anti-American fatwa by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf. It says that its correspondent in […]

Juan Cole

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Clinton Touches off National PTSD

Clinton Touches off National PTSD

Senator Clinton’s reference to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June of 1968 does not seem to me consequential, for all the brouhaha it […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
6 Marines Injured, 1 Soldier Killed; Sistani Aide: Jihad Fatwa May Come; Karbala’i: Punish Blasphemous GI

6 Marines Injured, 1 Soldier Killed; Sistani Aide: Jihad Fatwa May Come; Karbala’i: Punish Blasphemous GI

Al-Sharq al-Awsat writing in Arabic carries a follow-up article on the AP story regarding Sistani’s oral rulings on the permissibility of attacking multinational troops in […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Will Sistani Declare Jihad on US?

Will Sistani Declare Jihad on US?

Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul Zahra of AP get the scoop: Their sources in Najaf tell them that young Shiite men belonging to the “Troops […]

Juan Cole

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