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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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Why a Trump-appointed Supreme Court would mean Workers are Screwed

Why a Trump-appointed Supreme Court would mean Workers are Screwed

By Michele Gilman | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump touts that as president he would be good for American workers. Although many of […]

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Emails and Groping:  Our Halloween Election keeps Scaring us to Death

Emails and Groping: Our Halloween Election keeps Scaring us to Death

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – All Hallow’s Eve, contracted now to Halloween, became conflated with the Scottish and Irish pagan Samhain, […]

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“The Meaning of Peace in the Quran” – Juan Cole @ PBS

“The Meaning of Peace in the Quran” – Juan Cole @ PBS

Juan Cole | PBS | Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (Video Interview) | – – Via Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PBS On my new book, Muhammad: […]

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US Veterans' Biggest Battle:  Challenging Islamophobia

US Veterans’ Biggest Battle: Challenging Islamophobia

By Nate Terani | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – I’m not an immigrant, but my grandparents are. More than 50 years ago, they arrived […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike

Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi airstrikes targeting a judiciary building in al-Hudayda, a port on the western coast of Yemen […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem

Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in […]

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racism
Facebook Ad Option allows Discrimination Against Blacks, Latinos

Facebook Ad Option allows Discrimination Against Blacks, Latinos

By Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. | (ProPublica) | – – Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children

Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | – – . . . “There’s no question that, in the worst case, Mosul will represent the […]

Juan Cole

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10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer

10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – WaPo is reporting that it was the FBI investigation of Anthony Weiner that caused new emails […]

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