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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

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British Muslims Abandoning Labor In

British Muslims Abandoning Labor In

British Muslims Abandoning Labor; In Poll Show Mainstream European Attitudes The Guardian reports that British Muslims are turning against the Labor Party, which they traditionally […]

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Blix Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism

Blix Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism

Blix: Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Italian newspaper La Stampa, “The fact is that the war on Iraq, […]

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Sistani Linked Groups Begin Popular

Sistani Linked Groups Begin Popular

Sistani-Linked Groups begin Popular Campaign Against Interim Constitution AFP/az-Zaman On Sunday, Shiite clergymen, cultural figures and notables began an organized campaign against the newly signed […]

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Spains Voters Reject Aznars Popular

Spains Voters Reject Aznars Popular

Spain’s voters Reject Aznar’s Popular Party I was struck by the comment of a Spaniard in Charles Sennot’s Boston Globe piece on the Spanish elections. […]

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Seeds Of Gridlock In Iraq My Op Ed How

Seeds Of Gridlock In Iraq My Op Ed How

Seeds of Gridlock in Iraq My op-ed, “How the US is sowing gridlock in Iraq” is available online at the San Jose Mercury News. I […]

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Hundreds Of Students Strike In Baghdad

Hundreds Of Students Strike In Baghdad

Hundreds of Students Strike in Baghdad, Najaf and Mosul ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Hundreds of universty students organized protests Saturday against the Basic Law or interim constitution, […]

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3 Moroccans And 2 Indians Arrested In

3 Moroccans And 2 Indians Arrested In

3 Moroccans and 2 Indians Arrested in Spain Bombing Al-Qaeda is increasingly emerging as the chief suspect in the Madrid bombings, against which 12 million […]

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Iraqs Divided Loyalties And Bremer

Iraqs Divided Loyalties And Bremer

Iraq’s Divided Loyalties and Bremer Walls Phil Smucker writes perceptively from Baghdad in The Scotsman about the discontents of Iraqis and their ethnic divisions. I […]

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Black On Iraq One Year Later Eric Black

Black On Iraq One Year Later Eric Black

Black on Iraq, One Year Later Eric Black of the Minneapolis Star Tribune contributes among the better entries in the “War in Iraq: One year […]

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