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Was Colonialism a Crime?  Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule
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Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule

Juan Cole

Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth

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West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

12/26/2025 By The Conversation

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

12/26/2025 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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50 Kidnapped Violently Ams Pulls Out

50 Kidnapped Violently AMS Pulls out of Reconciliation Conference Megan Stack* poignantly describes the scene where 50 Iraqis were brazenly kidnapped by men in camouflage […]

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Islamist And Jihadist As Iraq

Islamist And Jihadist As Iraq

Islamist and Jihadist as Iraq Education Minister In his memoirs, US Civil Administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer, expressed delight that when his appointed Interim Governing […]

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At Least 80 Dead With Students

At Least 80 Dead With Students

At least 80 Dead, with Students Slaughtered No Security Chiefs Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki failed again on Sunday to appoint ministers of the interior and […]

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Khamenei No Nuclear Weapon Program No

Khamenei No Nuclear Weapon Program No

Khamenei: No Nuclear Weapon Program, No First Strike Goal is Energy Independence Abu Ghrayb, Haditha Weaken US Human Rights Claims The US media presented only […]

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Nearly 30 Dead In Basra Bombing 62

Nearly 30 Dead In Basra Bombing 62

Nearly 30 Dead in Basra Bombing, 62 Wounded Political violence in the Iraqi Civil War left 44 dead on Saturday in an arc that stretched […]

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14 Killed 71 Wounded Maliki Demands

14 Killed 71 Wounded Maliki Demands

14 Killed, 71 Wounded Maliki Demands Haditha File from US 14 deaths were from political violence were announced on Friday, according to Reuters, from bombings […]

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Fate Of Palestinian Refugees In Iraq

Fate Of Palestinian Refugees In Iraq

Fate of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq It is hell to be stateless. From the USG Open Source Center: ‘ PLO’s Al-Agha: Palestinian Killings in Iraq […]

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Maliki Condemns Haditha Massacre 26

Maliki Condemns Haditha Massacre 26

Maliki condemns Haditha Massacre 26 Dead in Violence 56 percent of Americans say that going to war against Iraq in 2003 was the wrong thing […]

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Ishaqi Massacre Emerges In Wake Of

Ishaqi Massacre Emerges In Wake Of

Ishaqi Massacre Emerges in Wake of Haditha The BBC has received video footage that appears to implicate US troops in the killing of 11 Iraqi […]

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