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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
Academic Freedom

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

H. Scott Prosterman

Censoring academic content does nothing to promote “a safe learning environment,” as Newsom’s signing statement concludes.

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COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

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Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

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9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

9/11 survivors’ exposure to toxic dust and the chronic health conditions that followed offer lessons that are still too often unheeded

By Roberto Lucchini | – ( The Conversation) – The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

Palestinian Prisoners take hope from emptying of South African Apartheid Jails

By Alie Komape | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When you do an online search for South Africa’s Robben Island, one of the […]

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Think Again: 9/11

“Think Again: 9/11,” by Juan Cole. Published in Foreign Policy No. 156 (Sep. – Oct., 2006), pp. 26-28, 30, 32. Copyright Foreign Policy, all rights […]

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Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

By Hanif Sufizada | – Now that the Taliban have reportedly taken full control of Afghanistan and begun forming a government, a looming challenge awaits: […]

The Conversation

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“That night, I became a climate Refugee:”  The Dixie Fire and our Hot Future

“That night, I became a climate Refugee:” The Dixie Fire and our Hot Future

ByJane Braxton Little | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – GREENVILLE, CA — At 10 a.m. on July 22nd, I interviewed a New York University professor about […]

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How Can America Wake Up From Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?

How Can America Wake Up From Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | – ( Code Pink | – Looking back on it now, the 1990s were an age […]

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Afghanistan
No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas  -- as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

No, WSJ, Taliban are not important to the Muslim battle of ideas — as Moroccan elections bring crushing defeat of religious party

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan has provoked a tidal wave of punditry about what it says […]

Juan Cole

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After Hurricane Ida, mutual aid provides safety and survival in New Orleans

After Hurricane Ida, mutual aid provides safety and survival in New Orleans

By Jordan Flaherty | – ( Waging Nonviolence) | – In the aftermath of disasters, those most in need are also who the state often […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Taliban Severely Beat Journalists:  New Restrictions Indicate Crackdown on Free Speech (HRW)

Afghanistan: Taliban Severely Beat Journalists: New Restrictions Indicate Crackdown on Free Speech (HRW)

Human Rights Watch | -(New York) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have been detaining and assaulting journalists and imposing new restrictions on media work, Human […]

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