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Israel’s Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout
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Israel’s Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even the tiniest detail is litigated in newspaper headlines when it comes to the Israeli government. Many news outlets reported […]

Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

09/27/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People

Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People

09/27/2025 By The Conversation

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As ISIL takes Ramadi:  America's Hydra Problem in the Middle East

As ISIL takes Ramadi: America’s Hydra Problem in the Middle East

By Inge Fryklund | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | — In the Greek myth, Heracles battles the Hydra — a multi-headed reptilian monster that was […]

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Apartheid
Illegal Israeli Squatters uproot hundreds of Palestinian olive trees near Hebron

Illegal Israeli Squatters uproot hundreds of Palestinian olive trees near Hebron

HEBRON (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers destroyed and uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in the Palestinian town of al-Shuyoukh northeast of Hebron in the southern West […]

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Arab Spring
Death Sentence for Morsi:  Egypt's Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea

Death Sentence for Morsi: Egypt’s Junta takes another step toward being N. Korea

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – That the only freely elected president Egypt has ever known has been sentenced to death is only […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas

Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas

By Kanya D’Almeida | — UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – On Thursday, May 14, a group of journalists rented a boat from Ko Lipe, a small […]

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Books

A Journalist Journeys to the Heart of the Quran (Muslim Scripture)

By JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary : Carla Power Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys […]

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Apartheid
Palestinian Christians, under Pressure, Honored by Pres. Abbas as they welcome New Saints

Palestinian Christians, under Pressure, Honored by Pres. Abbas as they welcome New Saints

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In the run up to Pope Francis’ canonization of two Palestinian nuns, President Mahmoud Abbas praises Palestinian Christians for the “distinctive dimension” […]

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Archaeology
Syria: Roman Palmyra Monuments in danger as ISIL Fighters Near

Syria: Roman Palmyra Monuments in danger as ISIL Fighters Near

BBC News | Video | – “Islamic State militants move to within a few miles of one of the world’s oldest and most important archaeological […]

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Cole:  Iraq's Ramadi falls to ISIL as Shiite Gov't refuses to Arm Sunni Tribes

Cole: Iraq’s Ramadi falls to ISIL as Shiite Gov’t refuses to Arm Sunni Tribes

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The Times of Baghdad (al-Zaman) reports that fighters of the Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) terrorist group raised their black flags […]

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Barack Obama
Was that a White House- Gulf Arab Summit or an Arms Bazaar?

Was that a White House- Gulf Arab Summit or an Arms Bazaar?

By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia on […]

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