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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: Key ISIL Smuggling city, Manbij, falls to Kurd-Arab Force

Syria: Key ISIL Smuggling city, Manbij, falls to Kurd-Arab Force

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian War is nowhere near over, but the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) episode may be drawing […]

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ISIL Captures Thousands trying to flee it in Iraq, Executes a Dozen

ISIL Captures Thousands trying to flee it in Iraq, Executes a Dozen

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Oman Daily’s Jabbar al-Rubaie reports that Iraqi security sources announced yesterday that Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) […]

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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: […]

Juan Cole

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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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#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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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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