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Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring
Democracy

Recent Elections Show Weaponizing Antisemitism to Protect Israel Is Backfiring

Mohammed Samaana

Israel and its hard line supporters have long relied on weaponizing charges of antisemitism to silence critics

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life

03/06/2026 By Al-Shabaka

Why the Trump Administration’s use of Legality in a Lawless Fashion, is worse than just Law-Breaking

Why the Trump Administration’s use of Legality in a Lawless Fashion, is worse than just Law-Breaking

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Pakistani Taliban threaten Suicide Bombings;

Pakistani Taliban threaten Suicide Bombings;

Mark LeVine is disturbed by the tendency of Barack Obama and other US politicians to lump the Taliban together with al-Qaeda. The latter, he says […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Women Bombers Open Gates of Hell in Iraq; 61 Dead, Hundreds Wounded; Kurdish Mobs Attack Turkmen Offices in Kirkuk

Women Bombers Open Gates of Hell in Iraq; 61 Dead, Hundreds Wounded; Kurdish Mobs Attack Turkmen Offices in Kirkuk

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that four female suicide bombers killed or wounded 350 persons on Monday. Late reports give 61 as the number of those […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Bombings of Shiites during Pilgrimage to Kadhimiya; 11 Thought Dead; Turkey Bombs Iraq Again

Bombings of Shiites during Pilgrimage to Kadhimiya; 11 Thought Dead; Turkey Bombs Iraq Again

Guerrillas in Iraq set off three bombs one after another on Monday morning, targeting Shiite pilgrims on their way to the Shrine of Imam Musa […]

Juan Cole

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100 Pushtun Guerrillas Killed at Spera from Air; ISI under Civilian Control?

100 Pushtun Guerrillas Killed at Spera from Air; ISI under Civilian Control?

One hundred Pushtun guerrillas launched a major offensive in an attempt to take Spera District center. They drew down on themselves the full fury of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
MP Calls for Talabani’s Removal; Veto of Provinces Law called Unconstitutional

MP Calls for Talabani’s Removal; Veto of Provinces Law called Unconstitutional

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that a controversy is raging in the Iraqi parliament about the veto exercised by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani against a bill […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Bush Charged with Murder One in Congressional Hearing

Bush Charged with Murder One in Congressional Hearing

Vincent Bugliosi’s opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power. He argues that since Bush took the country […]

Juan Cole

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Fox News= W. T.V.

Fox News= W. T.V.

Scott McClellan admits on Hardball that the White House fed Fox News hosts talking points. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow point out that in the […]

Juan Cole

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Taliban Resurgence threatens Elections

Taliban Resurgence threatens Elections

Obama Obama in Newsweek: ‘ Our success in Afghanistan is going to be deeply dependent not just on getting more troops there, which we need, […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Kurdistan Seeks to Annex Other Iraqi Provinces

Kurdistan Seeks to Annex Other Iraqi Provinces

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Kurdistan Alliance has responded to the Iraqi parliament’s passage of a bill concerning provincial elections. (The bill was vetoed […]

Juan Cole

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