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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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How We Learned to Stop Worrying About People and Love the Bombing

How We Learned to Stop Worrying About People and Love the Bombing

By Rick Shenkman | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – After Senator Ted Cruz suggested that the United States begin carpet bombing Islamic State (IS) forces in […]

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Authoritarianism
How the fate of Syria's al-Assad divides the GOP Field: Cruz, Trump, Rubio

How the fate of Syria’s al-Assad divides the GOP Field: Cruz, Trump, Rubio

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Foreign policy is not a strong suit for most of the Republican candidates for president. Many […]

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Foreign Policy
Teen Girl Accused Of Bullying For Criticizing Israel

Teen Girl Accused Of Bullying For Criticizing Israel

Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore, Jayar Jackson, and Becca Frucht | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “A teen in New Jersey has been reprimanded […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Media Blackout on Bernie Sanders Continues even though he leads Trump in Polls

Media Blackout on Bernie Sanders Continues even though he leads Trump in Polls

By Jim Hightower | (Otherwords) | – – The Tyndall Report, a non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of […]

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Iran
The Saudi-Iranian crisis reveals a deep power struggle in Tehran

The Saudi-Iranian crisis reveals a deep power struggle in Tehran

By Kamran Matin | (The Conversation) | – – Ever since Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shia dissident Nimr al-Nimr was met with violent protests at […]

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Israel/ Palestine
US: Israeli Defense Minister ‘undermining’ two-state solution

US: Israeli Defense Minister ‘undermining’ two-state solution

Ma’an News Agency | – – ISRAEL (Ma’an) — The United States came down Friday on a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon to […]

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Russian Strike on al-Qaeda Lair kills 51 at Prison, as US hypocritically slams Moscow

Russian Strike on al-Qaeda Lair kills 51 at Prison, as US hypocritically slams Moscow

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian air war against al-Qaeda in Syria (the Nusra Front or the Support Front) took […]

Juan Cole

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Paiute Native Tribe: Oregon Militia is Polluting our Ancestral Land

Paiute Native Tribe: Oregon Militia is Polluting our Ancestral Land

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “The armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Burns, Oregon, are being sent a message from […]

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Health
People in Lead-Poisoned Flint Still without clean Water

People in Lead-Poisoned Flint Still without clean Water

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Important Reminder in the Flint Crisis: People Still Have No Safe Water Emergency declared by […]

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