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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Twitter mirth  after Steve Emerson's Fox Nonsense re:  Birmingham as Muslim 'no-go' Zone

Twitter mirth after Steve Emerson’s Fox Nonsense re: Birmingham as Muslim ‘no-go’ Zone

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — Steve Emerson, a major figure in the Islamophobic network on which our right wing billionaires spend roughly $10 […]

Juan Cole

France
Determined to Protect Jewish Citizens, France to deploy thousands of Troops to "sensitive sites"

Determined to Protect Jewish Citizens, France to deploy thousands of Troops to “sensitive sites”

AFP | — “Members of the Jewish community in Paris remain rattled after an Islamist attack that left four people dead at a kosher supermarket. […]

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Climate Change
The Right's Determined lies about Keystone XL Creating Jobs

The Right’s Determined lies about Keystone XL Creating Jobs

MediaMatters4America | — “The right keeps on pushing lies about the Keystone Pipeline.” MediaMaters4America: “The Keystone XL Jobs Lie”

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France
Hezbollah's Surprising Denunciation of Paris Attacks: is it Courting the West?

Hezbollah’s Surprising Denunciation of Paris Attacks: is it Courting the West?

By Rola El-Husseini | (Special to Informed Comment) In a speech in Beirut on January 9, 2014, on the occasion of the birth of the […]

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Domestic Surveillance
After Charlie Hebdo:  More Surveillance won't Protect Free Speech

After Charlie Hebdo: More Surveillance won’t Protect Free Speech

By Jillian York | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Following a terrorist attack, it is not uncommon to hear calls from politicians and government officials for increased […]

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censorship
Paris Rally: Charlie Hebdo Team regret not Parading Caricatures of Hypocritical World Leaders

Paris Rally: Charlie Hebdo Team regret not Parading Caricatures of Hypocritical World Leaders

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Le Monde reported on the Charlie Hebdo team at the Paris rally on Sunday, the largest demonstrations in France since […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
J.K. Rowling takes Rupert Murdoch to Hogwarts School over his Islamophobia

J.K. Rowling takes Rupert Murdoch to Hogwarts School over his Islamophobia

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Rupert Murdoch is the billionaire press lord and major shareholder in News Corp., which own Sky News and Fox […]

Juan Cole

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New Republican Majority Wants to intervene in Obama's Iran Talks

New Republican Majority Wants to intervene in Obama’s Iran Talks

By Luke Johnson | (RFE/RL) WASHINGTON — Should U.S. President Barack Obama and Western powers reach a nuclear deal with Iran, they could face a […]

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Guns:  Americans more likely to be Shot by Toddler than by Terrorist

Guns: Americans more likely to be Shot by Toddler than by Terrorist

By Ann Jones | (Tomdispatch.com) Americans who live abroad — more than six million of us worldwide (not counting those who work for the U.S. […]

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