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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope
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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope

Richard Penaskovic

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It’s not surprising that Pope Leo XIV took the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII […]

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

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Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

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Muqtada Us Is Great Satan Radical Young

Muqtada Us Is Great Satan Radical Young

Muqtada: The US is the Great Satan The radical young Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr accused the American administration in Iraq of pressuring Friday prayers preachers […]

Juan Cole

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Mortar Round Lands Near Abdul Aziz Al

Mortar Round Lands Near Abdul Aziz Al

Mortar Round lands Near Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Australia’s News.com.au reports that a dud mortar round landed near the mosque hosting preacher Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader […]

Juan Cole

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Telecom Contracts Under Suspicion Of

Telecom Contracts Under Suspicion Of

Telecom contracts Under Suspicion of Graft The Financial Times says that the Pentagon is investigating the interim Iraqi minister of communications and two officials of […]

Juan Cole

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Poor Us Military Intelligence In Iraq

Poor Us Military Intelligence In Iraq

Poor US Military Intelligence in Iraq The Associated Press did a story on Friday on the US military’s lack of good human intelligence skills and […]

Juan Cole

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Al Hakim Faults Plan For Transition To

Al Hakim Faults Plan For Transition To

Al-Hakim Faults Plan for Transition to Sovereignty Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and a member of the […]

Juan Cole

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Powerful Explosions Rip Through

Powerful Explosions Rip Through

Powerful Explosions Rip through Palestine, Sheraton Hotels Guerrillas fired rockets into the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton in downtown Baghdad on Thursday. Several persons were […]

Juan Cole

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Gunmen Trade Fire With Guards Of Japans

Gunmen Trade Fire With Guards Of Japans

Gunmen trade fire with Guards of Japan’s Embassy Gunmen began firing on Wednesday night near the Japanese embassy in Baghdad. The embassy guards got into […]

Juan Cole

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Khafaji Added To Igc Salma Al Khafaji

Khafaji Added To Igc Salma Al Khafaji

Khafaji added to IGC Salma al-Khafaji has been added to the Interim Governing Council, succeeding the slain Aqilah al-Hashimi, who was assassinated. Al-Khafaji is a […]

Juan Cole

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Season Of Bombs 8 People Killed In Iraq

Season Of Bombs 8 People Killed In Iraq

Season of Bombs The 8 people killed in Iraq since Wednesday by various guerrilla bombings and attacks are dwarfed by the disaster in Istanbul. A […]

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