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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

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Escaping Death: Meet The Rohingya Muslim Refugees Fleeing Myanmar (Video)

Escaping Death: Meet The Rohingya Muslim Refugees Fleeing Myanmar (Video)

AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | – – “Late at night, Dudu Mia and his family wash up on the shores of Bangladesh. Their village […]

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Africa
Rick Perry has it Backwards: Oil causes Mass Rape

Rick Perry has it Backwards: Oil causes Mass Rape

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Somehow Secretary of Energy Rick Perry managed to find Africa, and while he was there, he […]

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Environment
With 75% fall in flying Insects, Call for pesticide ban

With 75% fall in flying Insects, Call for pesticide ban

By Samuel White | EurActiv.com | – – Scientists have raised the alarm after a study 27 years in the making found the biomass of […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syrian Army Liberates City of Deir Ezzor from ISIL

Syrian Army Liberates City of Deir Ezzor from ISIL

TeleSur | – – This marks a decisive defeat for the terrorist group which has seen its territory shrink at an exponential rate during 2017. […]

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Colonialism
Abbas:  British gov't should recognize Palestine on Balfour centenary

Abbas: British gov’t should recognize Palestine on Balfour centenary

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas released a statement on Thursday, the centenary of the […]

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Iran's Khamenei to Putin: Isolate US by dumping the Dollar

Iran’s Khamenei to Putin: Isolate US by dumping the Dollar

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin visited Tehran on Wednesday for consultations with President […]

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Bernie Sanders
Was Democratic Nomination rigged for Clinton against Sanders?

Was Democratic Nomination rigged for Clinton against Sanders?

Donna Brazile bombshell alleges DNC served as fundraising piggy bank for Clinton

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Iran
Iraq after ISIL: Stuck between US and Iran

Iraq after ISIL: Stuck between US and Iran

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The US are occupiers, say some of Iraq’s militias. The militias need to disband, say US […]

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Israel/ Palestine
A century on, Balfour Declaration still colonizes Palestinians’ everyday lives

A century on, Balfour Declaration still colonizes Palestinians’ everyday lives

By Simon Mabon | (The Conversation) | – – With a simple 67-word letter sent on November 2, 1917, the British foreign secretary, Lord Arthur […]

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