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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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Inside the US war in Yemen

Inside the US war in Yemen

By Reese Erlich | (48Hills.org) | – – The American military and complex Middle East politics create a horrible humanitarian crisis One of the most […]

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Kurds
A Second Palestine? Neo-Ottoman “Sultan” Erdogan Captures Syria’s Kurdish Enclave of Afrin

A Second Palestine? Neo-Ottoman “Sultan” Erdogan Captures Syria’s Kurdish Enclave of Afrin

By Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey’s capture of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria has added a new […]

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China
China met Carbon Intensity Goals 3 Years Early, but it Isn't Nearly Enough

China met Carbon Intensity Goals 3 Years Early, but it Isn’t Nearly Enough

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I am not a fundamentalist in any other area of life. But I am a carbon […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Egypt's Electoral Farce: Polls show Al-Sisi lacks legitimacy & gov't is Unstable

Egypt’s Electoral Farce: Polls show Al-Sisi lacks legitimacy & gov’t is Unstable

By Pamela Abbott & Andrea Teti | (The Conversation) | – – Egyptians are voting in presidential elections on March 26-28. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who […]

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Internet
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based  Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers

Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers

this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted

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Donald Trump
All Donald, All the Time: America's Ruin as Spectacle

All Donald, All the Time: America’s Ruin as Spectacle

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too unprecedented even […]

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China
Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?

Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kate Duguid at Reuters reports the alarm at UBS that China’s new oil futures exchange will […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump

Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump

Middle East Monitor | – – Construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank surged 17 per cent during the first year of US President […]

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Saudi Arabia
Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War

Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War

TeleSur | – – in Since the military offensive began 10,000 people have been killed, and 53,000 wounded. In Yemen‘s capital Sanaa, tens of thousands […]

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