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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

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Another "Unbalanced" White Terrorist targets Muslims at Mosque Near Paris

Another “Unbalanced” White Terrorist targets Muslims at Mosque Near Paris

TeleSur | – – Although the official investigation clearly said the attack was “deliberate,” the mainstream French media failed to report it. A man in […]

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Afghanistan
Top 6 Things Trump didn't know about Herat when he barred Girl robotics Scientists from US

Top 6 Things Trump didn’t know about Herat when he barred Girl robotics Scientists from US

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US embassy in Kabul has denied a visa to 6 Afghan high school students from […]

Juan Cole

censorship
UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera is attack on Freedom of Expression

UN: Saudi Bloc attempt to close Al Jazeera is attack on Freedom of Expression

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, is “extremely concerned by […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
The Violent "American Century"

The Violent “American Century”

By John Feffer | (FPIF) | Originally published in Korea Quarterly | – – The last near-century of American dominance was extraordinarily violent. Is it […]

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Syria
Syria: as anti-ISIL Fight enters End Game, Civilian Casualties Spike

Syria: as anti-ISIL Fight enters End Game, Civilian Casualties Spike

By Roshni Majumdar | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As US-backed Syrian rebels plow ahead in the fight to take […]

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Donald Trump
Top 5 things Trump is doing to us Worse than insulting Mika

Top 5 things Trump is doing to us Worse than insulting Mika

by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Yes, Trump’s gratuitous Twitter insult to newswoman Mika Brzezinski was horrible. But US cable news and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Freeing Fayza: A Journey to War-Torn Iraq to Rescue a Yazidi ISIL Slave Girl

Freeing Fayza: A Journey to War-Torn Iraq to Rescue a Yazidi ISIL Slave Girl

By: Brian Glyn Williams and Christopher Natola | (Informed Comment) | – – It began with an electrifying text message from a Yazidi member of […]

Juan Cole

Children
Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks

Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks

Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | – – After several years in which refugees and migration have featured heavily in the Western media narrative, a […]

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Afghanistan
Back to Quagmire: Beware endless US Troop Escalations in Afghanistan

Back to Quagmire: Beware endless US Troop Escalations in Afghanistan

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – We walked in a single file. Not because it was tactically sound. It wasn’t — at […]

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