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The Israeli Scramble for Palestine’s Energy Reserves (Pt. 1)
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The Israeli Scramble for Palestine’s Energy Reserves (Pt. 1)

Dan Steinbock

For 25 years, Israel’s Gaza policies have been motivated not just by security concerns, but by efforts to exploit the Palestinians’ energy reserves. With the […]

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“You Cannot fight the World:” The Hidden Meaning behind Trump’s Warning to Israel

“You Cannot fight the World:” The Hidden Meaning behind Trump’s Warning to Israel

10/16/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

The Gaza ceasefire Deal could be a ‘Strangle Contract’, with Israel holding all the Cards

The Gaza ceasefire Deal could be a ‘Strangle Contract’, with Israel holding all the Cards

10/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Sistani No Demonstrations Over Interim

Sistani No Demonstrations Over Interim

Sistani: No Demonstrations Over Interim Constitution az-Zaman: Ibrahim Jaafari, leader of the al-Da`wa al-Islamiyah Party in Iraq, who is close to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, […]

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Can We All Get Along My Op Ed

Can We All Get Along My Op Ed

Can We all Get Along? My op-ed, Conquering the divide (about Sunni-Shiite divisions), appeared in the Guardian yesterday. I conclude, Iraq’s future very much depends […]

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Impressions From Iraq It Was Kind Of

Impressions From Iraq It Was Kind Of

Impressions from Iraq: ‘It was Kind of Scary’ USC’s Daily Trojan profiles Sharif Ossayran, an Iraqi expatriate who went back to his home country and […]

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Us Press As Stenographers For Bush War

Us Press As Stenographers For Bush War

US Press as “Stenographers” for Bush War Reuters reports that the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies released a report on Tuesday […]

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Cobban On Interim Constitution Veteran

Cobban On Interim Constitution Veteran

Cobban on Interim Constitution Veteran journalist Helena Cobban has more discussion of the Fundamental Law signed Monday, its implications for Iraq, and the continued reservations […]

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3 Killed 20 Wounded As Tens Of

3 Killed, 20 wounded as Tens of Thousands of Kurds March in Joy in Kirkuk The Guardian reports that tens of thousands of Kurds marched […]

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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistanis Fatwa This

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistanis Fatwa This

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s Fatwa This is what was at the site of Sistani: ” In the name of the Most Exalted Grand Ayatollah Sistani […]

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Turkey On Interim Constitution It

Turkey On Interim Constitution It

Turkey on Interim constitution: “It Increases our Concerns.” The new Iraqi basic law deeply angered the Turkish government by offering what it saw as a […]

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Saddam Never Asked For Nukes To Be

Saddam Never Asked For Nukes To Be

Saddam never asked for Nukes to be Reconstituted: Top Iraqi Scientist AP reports that Jafar Dhia Jafar, father of Iraq’s nuclear program, is denying that […]

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