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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

Dan Steinbock

When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

09/22/2025 By Juan Cole

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

09/22/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Climate Change
What Rapid Climate Change Looks Like: the Younger Dryas Comet

What Rapid Climate Change Looks Like: the Younger Dryas Comet

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has long puzzled scientists that the gradual ending of the last glacial maximum or ice age […]

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Foreign Policy
Can American Democracy survive six Standing Wars?

Can American Democracy survive six Standing Wars?

William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Whether the rationale is the need to wage a war on terror involving 76 countries […]

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Antisemitism
Right's ban on phrase "Polish Death Camps" Backfires on Warsaw

Right’s ban on phrase “Polish Death Camps” Backfires on Warsaw

Sławomir Sierakowski | (Project Syndicate) | – – A new Polish law criminalizes blaming Poles for any wrongdoing against other nations. But the move only […]

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Feminism
The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran's Compulsory Hijab Laws

The ‘Girls of Revolution Street’ Protest Iran’s Compulsory Hijab Laws

By Mahsa Alimardani | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – A spate of defiant Iranian women have taken to the streets of Tehran to protest […]

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Syria
Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians

Turkey/Syria: Border Guards Shoot, Block Fleeing Syrians

Exposes Asylum Seekers to Further Risk, Abuse

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Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

Russia Mounts intensive Syria Air Campaign in Response to Downed Jet

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian side of the story, presented in the Syrian press, is that an al-Qaeda-linked group […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

TeleSur | – – Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian […]

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Arms Sales
Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

Huge Military Budgets Make Us Broke, Not Safe

By Miriam Pemberton | (Otherwords.org) | – – Backing down from nuclear war would make us a lot safer than piling more money into the […]

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Donald Trump
The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians that the Nunes memo is a dud, dead on […]

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