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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?
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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?

Dan Steinbock

New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Recently, international media has highlighted the mass famine in Gaza. Yet, there have been effectively three waves […]

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

09/02/2025 By Juan Cole

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

09/02/2025 By Global Voices

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Israel/ Palestine
Stop telling Palestinians to be 'resilient' – the rest of the world has failed them

Stop telling Palestinians to be ‘resilient’ – the rest of the world has failed them

The “resilience” agenda is disingenuous on a number of levels

Brendan Ciaran Browne

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Can Palestinians be Killed?  Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

British newspapers of the colonial era also called the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre “the Amritsar Riot”

Juan Cole

Iraq
Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq looks nothing like the American puppet state Neoconservatives had dreamed of

Sarah Benhaida

Gaza
Israeli Snipers massacre Palestinians at Gaza Border Rally, killing 55 & injuring over 2,700

Israeli Snipers massacre Palestinians at Gaza Border Rally, killing 55 & injuring over 2,700

Six of the slain were minors under 18, including one girl

Maan News Agency

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The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews  from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

For hundreds of years under the Romans, whether pagan or Christian, the city was made completely devoid of Jews, at least by law

Juan Cole

Torture
The CIA and The Banality of Haspel

The CIA and The Banality of Haspel

It would be hard to find someone with more experience to run the CIA– and that’s why she’s a terrible choice

John Feffer

Iran
Iran Foreign Minister in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal

Iran Foreign Minister in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal

Iran’s foreign minister was in Moscow on Monday as Russia tries to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive in the wake of Washington’s pull-out

AFP

Donald Trump
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War:  a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?

Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War: a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?

It’s time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean

Michael T. Klare

European Union
Germany will try to shield firms from US Sanctions after Trump Violation of Iran Treaty

Germany will try to shield firms from US Sanctions after Trump Violation of Iran Treaty

It could be difficult to shield them from any fallout, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday

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