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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crowds demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

08/10/2025 By ProPublica

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

08/10/2025 By The Conversation

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US Editorials called the Polish immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham 'Undesirables'

US Editorials called the Polish immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham ‘Undesirables’

Professional bigot Laura Ingraham, ensconced in the primo 10 pm slot at Fox Cable News, has delivered herself of one of her typical Know-Nothing pronouncements […]

Juan Cole

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First Palestinian-American Socialist Woman to Enter Congress: Rashida Tlaib

First Palestinian-American Socialist Woman to Enter Congress: Rashida Tlaib

The strong number of female candidates comes midway through the term of Trump. Rashida Tlaib is set to become the first Muslim and Palestinian-American woman […]

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The Saudi Problem: Wildly Erratic, and Savagely Lashing out from Yemen to Qatar to . . . Canada?

The Saudi Problem: Wildly Erratic, and Savagely Lashing out from Yemen to Qatar to . . . Canada?

Mohamed Bin Salman is at it again. The yacht-loving Renaissance art collector who tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the American elite […]

Juan Cole

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Moving toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

Moving toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

(Informed Comment) – Seventy-three years ago, on August 6 and August 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine Recognized as Sovereign State by Outgoing Colombia Government

Palestine Recognized as Sovereign State by Outgoing Colombia Government

Bogota (AFP) – Colombia recognized Palestine as a sovereign state in the days before new President Ivan Duque took office, according to a letter from […]

AFP

Iran
Why Iranians shrug off Trump Sanctions:  ‘No one in the World Trusts US’

Why Iranians shrug off Trump Sanctions: ‘No one in the World Trusts US’

Tehran (AFP) – If the US was hoping renewed sanctions on Iran would cause immediate economic turmoil and mass anti-government protests, it may be disappointed, […]

Eric Randolph

Donald Trump
Yes, Lou Dobbs, Mueller is Engaged in a Jihad–and that’s a Good Thing

Yes, Lou Dobbs, Mueller is Engaged in a Jihad–and that’s a Good Thing

Jihad in the Qur’an is the moral struggle to do good, and the Prophet is said to have defined it as speaking the word of truth to a tyrant

Asma Afsaruddin

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Europe, Russia, China defy Trump on Iran Sanctions

Europe, Russia, China defy Trump on Iran Sanctions

A further round of new Trump sanctions against Iran went into effect yesterday, but the president is failing to get buy-in from allies and rivals, […]

Juan Cole

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How Trump’s Trade War Hurts Working-Class Americans

How Trump’s Trade War Hurts Working-Class Americans

By Jeffrey Kucik | – President Donald Trump justifies tariffs on imports by arguing that “unfair trade policies” have harmed American workers. This has led […]

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