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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption

Dan Steinbock

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms

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Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

12/15/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

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How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

In response to censorship by Meta and other platforms, Palestinians have built an innovative new playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm

Waging Nonviolence

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Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again — the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage

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Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

The lightening rebel offensive that brought down five decades of the dictatorial rule of the Assad family, was a shock to many.

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

In the era of 24-hour news cycles and never-ending scrolling, why does poetry in times of crisis still matter?

The Conversation

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War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond

Long before Israelis invoked the bible erase a Palestinian homeland another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God

Max Perry Mueller

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Climate Breakdown:  Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

The Trump administration announced a new plan to open 1.3 billion acres of coastal waters to new oil and gas drilling

Tom Engelhardt

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Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall

Address Concerns Before Window for Rights-Respecting Transition Closes

Human Rights Watch

Climate Change
Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Mongols of the Golden Horde catapulted the cadavers of plague victims over the wall of the city of Caffa

Juan Cole

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One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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