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  1. 21 minutes ago

    Presumably this claims that Obama armed Jabhat al Nusra. That's utter bullshit. JaN got a very few US weapons taken from groups the US armed AGAINST JaN (& ISIS). & JaN/HTS isn't AQ.

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    As Obama “mourns” the loss of one iconic Cathedral, remember that this is the same man who armed Al-Qaeda terrorists that attacked, looted and destroyed the churches and monasteries of ’s Maaloula, one of the…
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    15 hours ago

    Israeli forces demolish Palestinian homes in Tulkarem Via PIC

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    22 hours ago

    Settlers execute Palestinian, soldiers destroy video evidence, media parrot the lie (the Azaria legacy) – Mondoweiss

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  4. Apr 18

    uh, that's false.

    "We can be whatever we have the courage to see." -
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  5. Apr 18

    maybe the voters should resent themselves. it's government policies, not the billionaires, that establish inequality.

    As Rich Lavish Cash on Notre-Dame, Many Ask: What About the Needy?
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  6. Apr 18

    Oh sure. Ben Gurion, the 'dreamer', wasn't confrontational at all: "The Jewish Agency Executive was ...apprised by Ben-Gurion in 1938 that, ‘after we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of a state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine".

    Opinion | Benjamin Netanyahu and the Death of the Zionist Dream By Avi Schlaim This is one of the best, short analyses of the tragedy…
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    Apr 17

    HTS prevents oil contraband to the regime controlled area, it's seems Assad in fuel blockade from every side

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  8. Apr 17

    oh please. would they have brought the dead back to life? health & hospitals are & should be the government's responsibility, not charity from anyone including the rich.

    Notre Dame Donations Are Heartening – But Where Were The Billionaires After Grenfell?
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    Apr 17

    Gavin Williamson slams Shamima Begum's bid for legal aid - trust me, you don’t want to live in a country in which politicians get to pick which individuals get the right to a fair trial

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  10. Apr 17

    no doubt he'd be comforted by the fact that whoever wins, his wishes will be disregarded.

    Kafka would appreciate that a trove of his unpublished work has been caught up in a byzantine legal dispute that spans ten years and two countries.
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  11. Apr 17

    it's not just that "the fate of the 2011 uprisings has had a chastening and chilling effect". that fate is strong evidence you can't overthrow these régimes without army backing (& subsequent/continued control)

    Despite opening w/a bit of a strawman argument (few anticipate Algeria & Sudan will domino), this is a solid case against overestimating how stable the region's autocracies are & highlighting the destabilizing regional policies of those same autocracies
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    Apr 17

    Mosul: A city still in ruins, two years after defeat of IS

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    Apr 16

    Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham reputedly paid recompense to members of Ansar al-Tawheed and Hurras al-Din who participated in recent raids in north Hama and south Aleppo respectively at a rate of $100 for each enemy killed: thus $3000 in total to Ansar al-Tawheed; $400 to Hurras al-Din

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    Apr 16

    Ceding the entirety of western art, history, and culture to the right seems like a cool and good idea that cannot possibly backfire on the Very Woke.

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  15. Apr 16

    oh yeah, huge 'contradiction' : "Church attendance in France is among the lowest in the world, with surveys showing that only about 5% of the total population, i.e. less than 10% of those who are nominally Catholics, now attend weekly mass"

    "Notre Dame was at once a living place of worship for the French Catholic church and the property of the French secular state: a symbol in itself of the country’s history and its present, in all its glorious contradictions."
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  16. Apr 16

    .cd ppl possibly refrain from this sort of wishful thinking? comprehensive repression is certainly not a sign of instability.

    Things you do as a stable, confident regime: Egypt has blocked access to about 34,000 websites in order to keep citizens from seeing an online campaign that rejects proposed constitutional changes.
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    Apr 13

    This is depressing. is being advised by Rob Malley, the guy who initiated behind-the-scenes contacts with Assad, and used his functionary Nir Rosen to pseudonymously promote the Assad-approved policy of local surrenders

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    Apr 14

    Twitter seems to have suspended reasercher account. This is getting ridiculous.

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  19. Apr 13

    democracy appears strong when it emerges in states which are strong already. The UK state was extremely strong ever since 1688 - long before democracy emerged. The strength of states is not obviously related to the strength of democracy itself.

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  20. Apr 13

    not very telling. British government was much more solid than European counterparts for centuries before it became democratic, & never experienced anything like the stresses of interwar Germany.

    “If democracies are inherently fragile, interwar Britain would have been a good candidate for democratic breakdown. But nothing of the sort happened”
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