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- At least 17 killed after drone strikes school in Sudan
- French aid worker among three killed in dronestrike in east DRC, M23 rebels say
- At least 65 Nigerian soldiers killed in jihadist raids in country’s north-east
- Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr
- Prison sentences for pair who attacked gay men hailed as sign of hope for Kenya’s LGBTQ+ community
- El Salvador’s mass arrest policy may have led to crimes against humanity, study shows
- Argentina grants asylum to Brasília rioter in move that may sway Brazil vote
- José Antonio Kast, the Pinochet fan about to swerve Chile to the far right
- Haiti president’s assassination driven by greed and power, US prosecutors say
- Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call ‘national security incident’
- Talking Points Memo
- A Tetchy Cornyn Shoves a Hand in the Camera When Pressed on His Filibuster Flip-Flop
- Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia
- ‘Ka-pow’!
- SLIDESHOW: 10 Pictures of Pete Hegseth From the ‘Unflattering’ Batch the Pentagon Reportedly Doesn’t Want You to See
- Ed Martin Clowns Himself Into Bonus Ethics Charges
- The US Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
- WH Pressures Congress to Stuff Anti-Trans Riders into Sweeping Voter Suppression Bill
- Trump’s War Against Iran Is Uniquely Unpopular Among US Military Actions of the Past Century
- Unpacking Trump’s Rhetorical Flip-Flops on Iran
- Alright Alright Alright! TPM Is Heading to Austin
- The Intercept
- Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran
- It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention”
- With World's Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank
- Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters
- U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School
- Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere.
- OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
- Columbia Flouted Its Own Policies and Let ICE Into University Buildings
- ICE Poses a Real Threat to Our Elections
- Trump’s War to Nowhere
- France24
- Israel launches new 'large-scale' wave of strikes on south Beirut
- Drone strike hits Goma killing aid worker and civilians
- Iran may tap into organised crime to carry out terror attacks, expert says
- Norway arrests three brothers over US embassy bombing in Oslo
- US Energy Secretary deletes post that Navy escorted tanker through Strait of Hormuz
- A world war? Iran war draws in more than regional rivals
- ‘I left everything for my grandchildren’: In Beirut, displaced families exhausted by endless war
- Citi, StanChart evacuate Dubai offices, HSBC closes Qatar branches as fears grow
- 'US war on Iran tactically very successful: Strategic success will be 'elusive', warns Schneiderman
- 'King of the World' statue shows Trump with Epstein in "Titanic" recreation
- Media Matters For America
- Right-wing media blamed Iran for bombing of Minab elementary school, but reporting suggests it was a US strike
- PBD Podcast panelist on war in Iran: "I think we're at the front door of quagmire"
- Joe Rogan calls Iran war "unnecessary aggression by the United States government"
- Tim Pool says Nick Fuentes is "correct in a lot of things for sure"
- Ben Shapiro responds to Joe Rogan's remarks about the Iran war: "No one is feeling betrayed unless they fundamentally misunderstood President Trump's foreign policy"
- Right-wing streamer Asmongold on Trump starting Iran war: “Anybody saying I didn't vote for this wasn't listening”
- Fox host on rising gas prices: "Do you think that the American people should say, OK, this is the sacrifice we have in short term?"
- On Newsmax, Dave Rubin says Megyn Kelly "saw a lot of energy around Nick Fuentes and Tucker, and I think she's just decided to get some clicks off of that"
- Newsmax host: "I would criticize essentially any other president after ten days like this. The DOW has lost almost 3000 points. Gas is way up."
- Trump's media allies embrace oil wars
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- Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961
- Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
- The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
- The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
- The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy: 1945-75 by Kattenburg, Paul M. (1980) Paperback
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
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