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Was Colonialism a Crime?  Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule
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Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule

Juan Cole

Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth

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West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

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From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

12/26/2025 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Police Stations Bombed Airplane Struck

Police Stations Bombed Airplane Struck

Police Stations Bombed, Airplane struck by Missile Powerful carbombs exploded at police stations in Baquba and Khan Bani Saad, northeast of Baghdad, early Saturday morning. […]

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Bomb Kills 4 Wounds 20 At Liquor Store

Bomb Kills 4 Wounds 20 At Liquor Store

Bomb Kills 4, Wounds 20 at Liquor Store An assailant threw a bomb at liquor stores in south Baghdad on Friday, killing 4 persons and […]

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Al Yawir Warns Of Lack Of Transparency

Al Yawir Warns Of Lack Of Transparency

Al-Yawir warns of lack of Transparency in Elections Meanwhile, the leader of the Sunni Shimr tribe, Ghazi al-Yawir [Yawer] (a member of the Interim Governing […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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