NOAM CHOMSKY: THE REAL EFFECT ...

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[Translate]   TRUTHDIG.COM “In our culture and society, it’s considered very courageous to send a huge bomb somewhere,” Noam Chomsky,...

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WHAT IS TRUMP’S MISSION ...

Mar 11, 2017 by

[Translate]   By Juan Cole / Informed Comment   TRUTHDIG The US had about 500 troops embedded with the People’s Protection Units...

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Why NATO Has Become One of the...

Apr 27, 2016 by

Why NATO Has Become One of the Most Destructive Forces on the Planet

[Translate] World Actions in Afghanistan, Europe, and Libya have created insecurity rather than order. By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet...

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SEYMOUR HERSH REACTS TO OBAMA&...

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WHAT GOP NEW YORKERS JUST VOTE...

Apr 22, 2016 by

WHAT GOP NEW YORKERS JUST VOTED FOR: TORTURE, SYRIA INTERVENTION AND THE MURDER OF INNOCENTS

[Translate] War & Peace Republican New Yorkers signed up for Trump’s plans of repealing the First and Eighth Amendments...

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Congressional Panel on Women a...

Apr 6, 2016 by

Congressional Panel on Women and Terrorism Puts Women in the War on Terror’s Crosshairs

[Translate] Grayzone Project Pushing back against the institutionalization of Islamophobia. By Maha Hilal / AlterNet   Photo Credit:...

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Women Refugees in Europe Wallo...

Apr 2, 2016 by

Women Refugees in Europe Wallow in Filth and Starvation

[Translate] Immigration The European Union cuts a shady new deal with Turkey. By Silja J.A. Talvi / AlterNet A woman carries her baby...

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U.S. to Put ‘Boots on th...

Jan 24, 2016 by

U.S. to Put ‘Boots on the Ground’ in Iraq to Combat ISIL

[Translate]   Defense Secretary Carter announces plans to deploy 101st Airborne Division in latest escalation of war. By Adam Johnson...

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ISLAMIC STATE’S DANGEROU...

Aug 27, 2015 by

ISLAMIC STATE’S DANGEROUS EFFORT TO WIPE OUT HUMANITY’S PAST

[Translate]   By Aram Sinnreich   TRUTHDIG   Ruins in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, before the country was plunged into civil...

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JIHADIST ATTACKS TAKE PLACE ON...

Jun 27, 2015 by

JIHADIST ATTACKS TAKE PLACE ON THREE CONTINENTS

[Translate]     Tunisian police officers are stationed in the lobby of a hotel where a terrorist attack took place in the coastal...

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Human-Caused Warming Helped Tr...

Mar 4, 2015 by

Human-Caused Warming Helped Trigger Current Syrian Conflict And Rise Of ISIS

[Translate] by Joe Romm   CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Shutterstock A new study finds that human-caused climate change was a major...

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Is This the End of National So...

Oct 23, 2014 by

Is This the End of National Sovereignty in the Middle East?

[Translate]   Posted on Oct 23, 2014 By Juan Cole   truthdug     A peaceful demonstration by Israelis and Kurds in Germany against...

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Will Islamic State Take Baghda...

Oct 15, 2014 by

[Translate] Juan Cole   TRUTHDIG Posted on Oct 15, 2014 By Juan Cole This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. According to...

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White House Islamic State Stra...

Oct 14, 2014 by

White House Islamic State Strategy Amounts to Wishful Thinking

[Translate] By William Pfaff   TRUTHOUT White House/Pete Souza Last Sunday, President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan...

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Congress Cut $8.7 Billion in F...

Oct 1, 2014 by

Congress Cut $8.7 Billion in Food Stamps in Same Year We’ll Spend $22 Billion to Fight Islamic State

[Translate] By Juan Cole  TRUTHDIG Shutterstock This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. It was all the way back in...

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U.S. Strikes Islamic State Oil...

Sep 28, 2014 by

U.S. Strikes Islamic State Oil Fields in Quest to Defund It: But Will It Replace Oil With Fracking?

[Translate]     By Juan Cole    TRUTHDIG Shutterstock This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. Sawt al-Iraq [Voice of Iraq]...

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Shock and Awe in Syria: It Nev...

Sep 23, 2014 by

[Translate] Juan Cole Posted on Sep 23, tadalafil  2014 By Juan Cole   TRUTHDIG This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page.  ...

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Why America will never win the...

Sep 18, 2014 by

[Translate] The U.S. military is neither a nation nor an army builder. It bodes ill for our future efforts in the Middle East Tom...

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‘Left, Right & Center’: O...

Sep 14, 2014 by

‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s New War, Scotland’s Vote, Campaign Finance

[Translate] Posted on Sep 14, 2014 Photo by jeff_golden (CC BY-SA 2.0) Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left,...

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Obama Previews U.S. Response t...

Sep 7, 2014 by

Obama Previews U.S. Response to ISIS: ‘We’re Going to Defeat Them’

[Translate] Posted on Sep 7, 2014 BBC On Sunday, as the U.S. military announced that it had initiated airstrikes targeting ISIS in...

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U.S. Public Worried About ISIL...

Sep 1, 2014 by

U.S. Public Worried About ISIL and Putin but Climate Change Is the Real Challenge

[Translate] Posted on Aug 30, 2014 By Juan Cole   TRUTHDIG Shutterstock This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. In a new...

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Truthdigger of the week: James...

Aug 26, 2014 by

Truthdigger of the week: James Foley

[Translate] Posted on Aug 24, 2014     Slain photojournalist James Foley. AP/Steven Senne By Alexander Reed Kelly Every week the...

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