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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

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Busting the Myths about Syrian Refugees in the US

Busting the Myths about Syrian Refugees in the US

Jeffrey H. Cohen | (The Conversation) | – – On Sept. 12, a new cease-fire took effect in Syria. With a lull in fighting, some […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel gets $38 Bn from US as it Strangles Palestinian Economy

Israel gets $38 Bn from US as it Strangles Palestinian Economy

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian economy remains “worrying” as growth stagnation, delays in aid delivery, and Israeli restrictions continue […]

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Barack Obama
Obama has one last Chance to remedy his Colossal Failure on Palestine/Israel

Obama has one last Chance to remedy his Colossal Failure on Palestine/Israel

By Carl Bildt | ( Project Syndicate ) | – – STOCKHOLM – Next year marks the centennial of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement […]

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Bill of Rights
Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were 'Necessary, Vital Things'

Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were ‘Necessary, Vital Things’

by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘I think when people look at the calculations of benefit, it is clear that in […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Right-wing Israeli ministers meet with Facebook to discuss censoring ‘anti-Semitic incitement’

Right-wing Israeli ministers meet with Facebook to discuss censoring ‘anti-Semitic incitement’

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Two right-wing Israeli ministers reportedly met with top Facebook executives on Monday in an effort to […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Syria Truce holds, despite questions on Humanitarian Aid

Syria Truce holds, despite questions on Humanitarian Aid

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The London pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-`Arabi reports that the truce that began Monday night held during […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
End of the 'Caliphate' in Iraq?  After Qayyarah, Mosul hangs in the Balance

End of the ‘Caliphate’ in Iraq? After Qayyarah, Mosul hangs in the Balance

Special Correspondent | (Niqash.org) | – – The liberation of the northern Iraqi town of Qayyarah from the [so-called] Islamic State group [IS] is a […]

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Free Syrian Army
As Truce Starts, Russia Tells Free Syrian Army to Stop Fighting Kurds

As Truce Starts, Russia Tells Free Syrian Army to Stop Fighting Kurds

TeleSur | – – Moscow added it would continue its own air strikes against the Islamic State group and the militants formerly known as the […]

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Afghanistan
What did we buy with the $5 Trillion that the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars have cost us?

What did we buy with the $5 Trillion that the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars have cost us?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A Boston U. political scientist estimates that as of 2016, The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars have […]

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