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As a Palestinian, Trump’s 20-Point Gaza “Peace Plan” Scares Me
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As a Palestinian, Trump’s 20-Point Gaza “Peace Plan” Scares Me

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Like most Palestinians, I was initially excited about the ceasefire agreement in Gaza — even though, judging by […]

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Vance: “A Stupid Political Stunt:”  Israeli Knesset Approves Reading of Bills to Annex the Occupied West Bank

Vance: “A Stupid Political Stunt:” Israeli Knesset Approves Reading of Bills to Annex the Occupied West Bank

10/24/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

Famed Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up and Never Surrender

Famed Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up and Never Surrender

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Iraqi Kurdistan Officials Deny US Bases to be Opened in Kurdistan Region The USG Open Source Center translates the following newspaper article from Kurdish: ‘ […]

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Guerrillas Ambush Kill 10 Us Gis As

Guerrillas Ambush, Kill 10 US GIs Over 100 Iraqis Killed or Found Dead Muqtada condemns Iran for Talking to US As best I can piece […]

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Cole On Heroes And Culture Wars My

Cole on “Heroes” and the Culture Wars My column at Salon.com this week is on the television phenomenon “Heroes”. [Spoiler alert: for anyone who hasn’t […]

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First Formal US-Iran Talks since 1980 The US has dealt differently with Iran than with any other of its major enemies. Then President Ronald Reagan […]

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24 Killed90 Wounded Qadiriya Shrine

24 Killed,90 wounded; Qadiriya Shrine Damaged in Blast Reuters reports that 33 bodies were found in the streets of Baghdad on Monday. Karrada took mortar […]

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Embassy Memo Flap And Decline Of Right

Embassy Memo Flap and the Decline of the Right Blogosphere Glenn Greenwald and Iraqslogger on that memo about food shortages at the US embassy in […]

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Memorial Day 2007 Couple Of Months Ago

Memorial Day, 2007 A couple of months ago I was at Detroit Metro and two very young soldiers timidly approached me. They were changing planes […]

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10 Us Gis Killed 44 Bodies In Baghdad

10 US GIs Killed 44 Bodies in Baghdad Al-Shamari Informs on Sadrists, Flees to US Iraq had another bloody Sunday yesterday, with the US military […]

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8 US GIs Killed US Bombs Sadr City The US military announced the killing of 8 US GIs on Saturday. The Iraqi prime minister, Nuri […]

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