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How Sistani Silently Halted Iraq’s Slide Back into War

When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: 92-year-old Iraqi Shiite religious authority Ali al-Sistani, who proved once again he is the most powerful man in his country. Sistani said…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war

When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: a 92-year-old Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who proved once again he is the most powerful man in his country.

Reuters

The Ferguson Report: Peter Dutton wants us all to ‘stop doing that’

As his first oppositional act, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton opposed the Jobs and Skills Summit, saying it should stop ... then slowly reverse.

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Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art

A commission created by Congress is recommending changes at West Point when it comes to commemorating Robert E

The Independent UK

Muqtada al-Sadr and Iraq’s propensity for an intra-Shia conflict

Before Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s call for an end to the violence, analysts feared Iraq was headed to war.

Al Jazeera

Congressional panel says it cannot call for removal of KKK plaque at prestigious West Point military academy

Panel conducting review of Confederate-US military links called on Defense Department to go further

The Independent UK

Tracing the Geordie sailors who fought in the American Civil War 160 years ago

A new online project launched by Northumbria University aims to tell the stories of British and other immigrant sailors who fought in the American Civil War - and it needs the public's help

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Liberia's corruption culture linked to failure to pursue war criminals

Liberia’s pervasive culture of impunity, which has been brought into focus by recent US sanctions against three senior officials, has its roots in the failure of the country’s justice system after the civil war, according to a Liberian analyst.

Radio France Internationale

America's kids are going back to school. Not all of their teachers will join them

It's a new school year and Jake Miller is not setting up his classroom in Pennsylvania. He's not getting to know a new group of eighth-graders. After 15 years of teaching, he quit.

WEKU

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43% of Americans say a civil war is at least somewhat likely in next 10 years

Tribune News Service

Nikolas Cruz asked if people ‘ate’ corpses and what Lincoln killing ‘sounded like’ in school Civil War lesson

‘Was there blood everywhere? After the war, what did they do with all of the bodies? Did people eat them?’ Cruz reportedly asked in an eighth grade class

The Independent UK

43% of Americans say a civil war is at least somewhat likely in next 10 years

More than 2 in 5 Americans say a U.S. civil war is at least somewhat likely in the next decade, highlighting the deepening political divisions in the country heading into the midterms.

Tribune News Service

More than four in 10 Americans say civil war is more likely within the next decade, poll finds

The Economist/YouGov poll finds self-described ‘strong Republicans’ most likely to say there could be a US civil war in the next decade

The Independent UK

First Thing: major sea-level rise from ice cap melting ‘now inevitable’

Minimum rise of 10in to occur regardless of climate action, scientists find. Plus, survey asks about likelihood of US civil war

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Haacaaluu Hundeesaa: sublime Ethiopian singer who inspired Oromo struggle protesters

I speak to myself whispering Our situation has defied resolution, our misery isn’t improving We are in despair and idling, that is why I am whispering. So sings Haacaaluu Hundeessaa to his people, the Oromo, in the song Waa’ee Keenya (Our struggle), calling on them to take action against centuries…

The Guardian - US

More than 40% of Americans think civil war likely within a decade

More than half of ‘strong Republicans’ think such a conflict is at least somewhat likely, poll finds

The Guardian - UK

Reporter Luke Mogelson: ‘I was surprised by the lunacy of the conspiracy theories in Michigan’

The New Yorker writer whose new book follows the militarised rightwing protests in Michigan that prefigured the Capitol attacks, on extremism and the possibility of civil war

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Doug Mastriano wore a Confederate Army uniform in an Army War College faculty photo

PHILADELPHIA — State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, appeared during his time on the faculty of the Army War College in an official photograph while wearing a Civil War Confederate Army uniform.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The union started ‘parting bonds’ before Lincoln was elected

But the former president momentously transcended the nation’s embittered sectional breach during the duration of the protracted hostilities.

The Independent UK

Tigray war: ‘I can’t help my starving family’, says Ethiopian World Health Organisation boss

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns Tigrayan relatives are ‘completely sealed off’ by civil war

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘House of the Dragon’ Renewed for Second Season after First Episode Is a Hit

"House of the Dragon", the highly anticipated “Game of Thrones” prequel, has been renewed for a second season after its first episode proved a hit. Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood”, the drama is set 200 years before the events that played out in "Game of Thrones" and…

Salon

Gun prevalence rooted in old divisions

A new study finds a peculiar correlation between rate of enslavement in the past and firearm ownership now

Irish Mirror

Every new show coming to RTE in the next four months - Roy Keane drama, new Dermot Bannon show and Claire Byrne show replacement

40 hours of brand new drama is coming your way alongside the return of many fan favourites

The Guardian - UK

Spanish civil war book reveals hidden history of female journalists

Women less interested in ‘macho competitiveness of violence’ in conflict, says author

WEKU

2 men are found guilty of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

A jury convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor in 2020 in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists.

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