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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

08/23/2025 By ProPublica

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

08/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Syria
10 Children Killed in Saudi Airstrike on Yemeni School

10 Children Killed in Saudi Airstrike on Yemeni School

TeleSur | – – The Saudi-led coalition admitted children were at the site of the airstrike but jets “don’t distinguish ages” during attacks. At least […]

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People in Syria's Manbij Rejoice by Shaving, throwing off Veil as ISIL fighters Flee

People in Syria’s Manbij Rejoice by Shaving, throwing off Veil as ISIL fighters Flee

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – People in Syria’s norther town of Manbij, now entirely liberated from the rule of Daesh (ISIS, […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Climate Change Terror as Deserts Bury 2/3s of African Lands

Climate Change Terror as Deserts Bury 2/3s of African Lands

By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, (IPS) – Two-thirds of the African continent is already desert or dry-lands. But while […]

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ISIL fighter number falls to 15,000 as Manbij capture Cuts off Route to Europe

ISIL fighter number falls to 15,000 as Manbij capture Cuts off Route to Europe

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | AP is reporting that Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland maintains that the number of ISIL fighters in Syria and […]

Juan Cole

Bashar al-Assad
Monsters to Destroy:  Top 7 Reasons the US could not have forestalled Syrian Civil War

Monsters to Destroy: Top 7 Reasons the US could not have forestalled Syrian Civil War

by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The interventionist temptation, muted since the Iraq imbroglio, is now returning. Sec. Clinton’s team are already […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
If the Military had Permission to Speak Freely:  They might rescue us from the Politicians' Forever War

If the Military had Permission to Speak Freely: They might rescue us from the Politicians’ Forever War

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The United States is now engaged in perpetual war with victory nowhere in sight.  Iraq […]

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Plutocracy
How labor's decline opened door to billionaire Trump as 'savior' of American workers

How labor’s decline opened door to billionaire Trump as ‘savior’ of American workers

By Raymond Hogler | (The Conversation) | – – Out of the economic maelstrom of the last decade, Donald Trump has emerged as the improbable, […]

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No, Obama did not found ISIL, Mr. Trump: That was the GOP

No, Obama did not found ISIL, Mr. Trump: That was the GOP

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump in his daily free association exercise accused President Obama of creating Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) in […]

Juan Cole

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Trump threatens Sec. Clinton with Gun Nuts, imitates Tinpot 3rd World Regimes

Trump threatens Sec. Clinton with Gun Nuts, imitates Tinpot 3rd World Regimes

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump said Tuesday there was nothing that his supporters could do if Hillary Clinton won […]

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