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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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Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?

Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?

The ‘War on Terror’ is destroying Democracy

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That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery

That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised classroom version Some observers imply that in 1861, most people in the world believed in […]

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No Compromise: Let's not forget Kelly's 'Empty Barrel' Smear

No Compromise: Let’s not forget Kelly’s ‘Empty Barrel’ Smear

Kelly seems not to think enslaving people of African Heritage was Always Wrong

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Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq

Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq

US Middle East policy often seemed similar to Putin’s Plot on America via Trump

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship

Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship

By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | – – When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to […]

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Corruption
Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con

Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con

By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Yesterday the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign and the architect of last year’s Republican […]

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Climate Change
Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history

Climate Emergency: Heat Trapping Gases make largest Jump in recorded history

TeleSur | (Informed Comment) | – – Carbon dioxide or CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have reached unprecedented high levels, a United Nations watchdog group […]

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Donald Trump
How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy

How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy

Reprint edn. Update: Reuters reports that “Facebook says 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts” By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – […]

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Archaeology
A mid-6th Century (Christian?) proto-Arabic Inscription from N. Arabia Mentioning Al-Ilah

A mid-6th Century (Christian?) proto-Arabic Inscription from N. Arabia Mentioning Al-Ilah

(Politically oriented readers of IC please excuse this reprint of a path-breaking but extremely technical discussion in Arabian religious and linguistic history. It is highly […]

Juan Cole

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