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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas
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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state by now has a long and sanguinary history of murdering writers and journalists in cold blood. In […]

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

08/11/2025 By Global Voices

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

08/11/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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Nagasaki, 1945: “The world did not need your experiment”

Nagasaki, 1945: “The world did not need your experiment”

By H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – Kyoko Hayashi nearly died on August 9, 1945 in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. She […]

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Obama not only did not pay Iran Ransom, he denied Iran Billions it had Coming to It

Obama not only did not pay Iran Ransom, he denied Iran Billions it had Coming to It

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Zack Beauchamp at Vox has a very clear explanation of why the $400 million the US […]

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The Decay of American Politics: Pseudo-Election 2016

The Decay of American Politics: Pseudo-Election 2016

By Andrew J. Bacevich | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – My earliest recollection of national politics dates back exactly 60 years to the moment, in the […]

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Donald "Dr. Strangelove" Trump and some of the Times We almost had a Nuclear War

Donald “Dr. Strangelove” Trump and some of the Times We almost had a Nuclear War

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I have long wondered why no one in Hollywood has remade Stanley Kubricks’s 1964 “Dr. Strangelove: […]

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Dear Trumpists:  Khizr Khan is not ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ and it wouldn’t matter if he Were

Dear Trumpists: Khizr Khan is not ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ and it wouldn’t matter if he Were

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A Trump adviser is trying to smear Khizr Khan, the Pakistani-American legal consultant who spoke at […]

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Muslim-Americans
#CanYouHearUsNow: Muslim Women Lambast Trump’s Orientalism

#CanYouHearUsNow: Muslim Women Lambast Trump’s Orientalism

TeleSur | – – Muslim women activists took to social media to take a stand against the Republican candidate’s bigoted drudgery. Muslim-Americans Khizr and Ghazala […]

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African-Americans
Black Lives Matter Protests in Palestine

Black Lives Matter Protests in Palestine

TeleSur | – – BLM argued that police violence and killings against Black people in the U.S. are connected to the decades-long Israeli oppression of […]

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6 Signs the Big Global Switch to Solar has already Begun

6 Signs the Big Global Switch to Solar has already Begun

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – China has installed 20 gigawatts of new solar power just in the first half of this […]

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Pope and French Muslims try Muslim-Christian outreach instead of 'War on Terror' Polarization

Pope and French Muslims try Muslim-Christian outreach instead of ‘War on Terror’ Polarization

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – AFP reported from the papal airplane on Pope Francis’s remarks about Islam in the wake of […]

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