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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

05/21/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

05/21/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

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Attempts To Moderate Stance Of Igc On

Attempts To Moderate Stance Of Igc On

Attempts to Moderate Stance of IGC on Turks The Bush administration is saying that it will not take “no” for an answer from the Interim […]

Juan Cole

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One Us Soldier Wounded One Iraqi

One Us Soldier Wounded One Iraqi

One US soldier Wounded, One Iraqi Policemen Killed and another Wounded Guerillas fired rocket-propelled grenades at a US convoy near Balad on Wednesday, wounding one […]

Juan Cole

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Protesters Pelt Us Troops In Baghdad

Protesters Pelt Us Troops In Baghdad

Protesters Pelt US Troops in Baghdad: Rally by the Army of the Mahdi Protesters from the Sadrist “Army of the Mahdi” gathered again Wednesday at […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Calls For Sunni Shiite Unity

Khamenei Calls For Sunni Shiite Unity

Khamenei Calls for Sunni-Shiite Unity in Iraq: SCIRI: no Separation of Religion and State Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in […]

Juan Cole

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Riots In Baghdad Rioting Continued For

Riots In Baghdad Rioting Continued For

Riots in Baghdad Rioting continued for the third day in Baghdad, this time by nearly 2000 former members of the Iraqi secret police, who want […]

Juan Cole

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Three Us Soldiers Killed 3 Wounded In

Three Us Soldiers Killed 3 Wounded In

Three US soldiers Killed, 3 wounded in Iraq; Mortar at Foreign Ministry Guerrillas killed one US soldier and wounded another near Ramadi west of Baghdad […]

Juan Cole

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Waxman Corporations Angry About Tender

Waxman Corporations Angry About Tender

Waxman, Corporations Angry about Tender Process in Iraq The American-Iraqi Chamber of Commerce, the ambassador to the US of Qatar, several US companies, and Henry […]

Juan Cole

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Iranian Factions Divided On Which Iraqi

Iranian Factions Divided On Which Iraqi

Iranian Factions divided on which Iraqi Shiites to support According to al-Sharq al-Awsat, reformist president Ali Khatami of Iran is supporting Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of […]

Juan Cole

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Turkish Troops Rejected Unanimously By

Turkish Troops Rejected Unanimously By

Turkish Troops Rejected “Unanimously” by Iraqi Governing Council The complete powerlessness and irrelevancy of the so-called Interim Governing Council was demonstrated Wednesday when the US […]

Juan Cole

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