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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Fidel Castro's Top Moments in the Middle East

Fidel Castro’s Top Moments in the Middle East

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Fidel Castro is dead at 90. He presided over the only pro-USSR Communist state in the […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump, Putin, and the new Middle East

Trump, Putin, and the new Middle East

By Maged Mandour | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – The election of Trump will give second wind to autocrats in the region as well […]

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Displaced and Refugees
WikiLeaks Yemen Files Unmask Washington's Bloody Role

WikiLeaks Yemen Files Unmask Washington’s Bloody Role

TeleSur | – – More than 10,000 – mostly civilians – have been killed and more than 3 million have been displaced in the conflict. […]

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Donald Trump
With Trump, we've all Entered the Dark Dimension of Dormamu

With Trump, we’ve all Entered the Dark Dimension of Dormamu

By James A. Haught | (Charleston Gazette-Mail) | – – Existentialists contend that humanity has a streak of irrational absurdity that defies logical understanding. The […]

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Is Trump "Pro-Russian?"   How will Russia Fare?  Russians want to Know

Is Trump “Pro-Russian?” How will Russia Fare? Russians want to Know

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian op-ed writers are intrigued with Donald Trump, who has spoken of improving relations between […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Overheated Arctic:  Climate Change 'Vicious Circle'

Overheated Arctic: Climate Change ‘Vicious Circle’

TeleSur | – – Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016 —some 4.14 million sq km (1.6 […]

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Israel/ Palestine
World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water

World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Raining Bombs:  Mosul Fight hits Trapped Civilians

Raining Bombs: Mosul Fight hits Trapped Civilians

By a Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | – – Inside their homes, a lack of food and water; outside, bombs, snipers and crossfire. […]

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Environment
IC Annual Fundraiser:  Now more than Ever

IC Annual Fundraiser: Now more than Ever

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Let’s get this done, friends. I can’t do it all by myself, and need your contributions […]

Juan Cole

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