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As Ceasefire Looms, Gaza’s Children are Still Starving
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As Ceasefire Looms, Gaza’s Children are Still Starving

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump peace plan has resulted in an agreement between Hamas and Israel to pause fighting and exchange prisoners. Other […]

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Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan

10/09/2025 By Nicolas J. S. Davies

Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet

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Lurch to Far Right keeps Netanyahu in power, but for how long?

Lurch to Far Right keeps Netanyahu in power, but for how long?

By Luisa Gandolfo | (The Conversation) | – Only weeks after Israel’s snap Knesset elections, the Likud party was bluntly reminded that winning the most […]

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Arab World
Egypt:  Mubarak, Sons, given 3-year Wrist Slap for Massive Corruption

Egypt: Mubarak, Sons, given 3-year Wrist Slap for Massive Corruption

Reuters | — “Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are sentenced to three years in jail without parole in the retrial of a corruption case. […]

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Climate Change
Hawaii goes Green and other Big Renewables Stories

Hawaii goes Green and other Big Renewables Stories

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – The Hawaii legislature has just passed a bill by an overwhelming margin that sets a goal of […]

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Militarization
Is Sen. Tom Cotton right that ISIL is Winning?

Is Sen. Tom Cotton right that ISIL is Winning?

John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks) — “Senator Tom Cotton has a lot of faith in the military prowess of ISIS, […]

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Apartheid
Palestinians: ""The face of a new form of racist, discriminatory Israel has been revealed"

Palestinians: “”The face of a new form of racist, discriminatory Israel has been revealed”

By IMEMC Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing religious “government of war” is a blow to an already stagnating peace process, PLO officials said […]

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nuclear weapons
Why won’t US, Israel Ratify Nuclear Test Ban Treaty but seek Iran Sanctions?

Why won’t US, Israel Ratify Nuclear Test Ban Treaty but seek Iran Sanctions?

By Kanya D’Almeida UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – With the four-week-long review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) underway at the United Nations, hopes and […]

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Bashar al-Assad
Hizbullah, Syrian Army push back al-Qaeda in Qalamoun as Christian militia mobilizes

Hizbullah, Syrian Army push back al-Qaeda in Qalamoun as Christian militia mobilizes

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – Smarting from a string of losses, the proregime coalition of Hizbullah and the Syrian Arab Army is […]

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Syria: What if Turkey and Saudi Arabia install al-Qaeda in Damascus?

Syria: What if Turkey and Saudi Arabia install al-Qaeda in Damascus?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – Journalists such as the intrepid Liz Sly covering the Syrian Civil War were struck with the victories […]

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Iraq
Iraqi Shiite cleric al-Sadr threatens USA as GOP Draft Seen aiming at Partition

Iraqi Shiite cleric al-Sadr threatens USA as GOP Draft Seen aiming at Partition

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | — Fighters loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr staged a military parade after al-Sadr protested the US’ draft law. […]

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