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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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New Polls:  Is Bernie Sanders *more* electable than Sec. Clinton?

New Polls: Is Bernie Sanders *more* electable than Sec. Clinton?

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Here comes Bernie! New polls show Hillary Clinton’s Iowa lead is all but gone… […]

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Thwarted Territorially in Ramadi, Daesh reverts to Terrorism in Baghdad

Thwarted Territorially in Ramadi, Daesh reverts to Terrorism in Baghdad

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – One of the problems Iraq and Syria will face as Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) is gradually rolled […]

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Russia
Putin:  Syria's Al-Assad welcome to Refuge in Russia

Putin: Syria’s Al-Assad welcome to Refuge in Russia

Vladimir Putin | (Der Bild) | – – Excerpt from part II of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interview in the German publication, Der Bild, on […]

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Constitution
The Best Way to Close Guantanamo? Give It Back to Cuba

The Best Way to Close Guantanamo? Give It Back to Cuba

By Alli McCracken | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – In one fell swoop, President Obama could erase the stain of Guantanamo and make […]

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Counter-Terrorism
Politics, not just Bombs, will defeat ISIL/ Daesh

Politics, not just Bombs, will defeat ISIL/ Daesh

By Frank-Walter Steinmeier | (Project Syndicate) | – – BERLIN – The November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris – which struck at the heart of […]

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Israel
Why Arson was suspected in Fire at Offices of Israeli Human Rights & Peace Group B'Tselem

Why Arson was suspected in Fire at Offices of Israeli Human Rights & Peace Group B’Tselem

Nir Hasson | Haaretz | (Video News Report) | – – Update: N.B. an investigation by the Jerusalem fire brigade appears to have concluded that […]

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African-Americans
Oregon Standoff: What If The Armed Men Were Muslim Or Black?

Oregon Standoff: What If The Armed Men Were Muslim Or Black?

Jessica Sherry | AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “The Ammon Bundy–led armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon isn’t […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Beset by  Loneliness and Memories, Syrian Refugees Struggle even in Safe Spaces

Beset by Loneliness and Memories, Syrian Refugees Struggle even in Safe Spaces

By Silvia Boarini | (Inter Press Service) | – – ZARQa, Jordan (IPS) – Emelline Mahmoud Ilyas is an outgoing 35-year-old mother of three from […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Majority of Jerusalem Palestinians detained in 2015 were minors

Majority of Jerusalem Palestinians detained in 2015 were minors

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained more than 1,900 Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem in 2015, the majority of […]

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