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Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average
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Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Juan Cole

2024 was the hottest year on record in the Middle East, around 1º Celsius (1.8º F.) hotter than the average for 1990-2020

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At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

At Trump’s Prompting, Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a Pardon, But Israeli Law may not Work that Way

12/08/2025 By The Conversation

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

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2 US Soldiers wounded Friday in Roadside Bombing AP says, “A roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad on Friday, wounding two U.S. soldiers. The explosion that […]

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Imminent Threat And We Know Where They

Imminent Threat And We Know Where They

‘Imminent Threat’ and ‘We know where they are’ becomes “Intent” (Cheney) I am so naive that I still read items like this with my jaw […]

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John Hannah Allegedly Focus Of Plame

John Hannah Allegedly Focus of Plame Probe Richard Sale, respected intelligence reporter for UPI, has given credibility to a story that had been rumored for […]

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Jaafari Of Al Dawa Calls For Shiite

Jaafari Of Al Dawa Calls For Shiite

Jaafari of al-Da`wa Calls for Shiite Unity Plan The London daily al-Hayat says today that after being roiled by divisions after the fall of Saddam, […]

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Sadrists Occupy Provincial Hq In

Sadrists Occupy Provincial Hq In

Sadrists occupy Provincial HQ in Nasiriyah, force Resignation of some Members of Provincial Council Sat. 8:30 pm. Just checked my email and am getting some […]

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Disputed Assassination Attempt On

Disputed Assassination Attempt On

Disputed Assassination attempt on Sistani Alissa Rubin of the LA Times reports that there are conflicting stories about whether Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was the […]

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Rumsfeld We Never Said It Tony Blair

Rumsfeld: We never said it! Tony Blair admitted Thursday that he had not understood what was being claimed in British intelligence estimates that Iraq could […]

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Honduras Protests Against Iraq War Us

Honduras Protests against Iraq War, US Imperialism Thousands of protesters, including students, union members and leftists, thronged the streets of five major cities in Honduras […]

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Kurdish Parliament Rejects Islamization

Kurdish Parliament Rejects Islamization

Kurdish Parliament Rejects Islamization of Personal Status Laws Late last December, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and some allies on the US-appointed Interim Governing Council issued an […]

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