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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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No Sense of Urgency: Obama's New Solar Energy Commitments are still Just Baby Steps

No Sense of Urgency: Obama’s New Solar Energy Commitments are still Just Baby Steps

(By Juan Cole) President Obama has long expressed concern about climate change and its impacts, and was mocked by Mitt Romney for saying he wanted […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Calif. Republican Smears Arab-American Libertarian Congressman as  ‘al Qaeda’s best friend’

Calif. Republican Smears Arab-American Libertarian Congressman as ‘al Qaeda’s best friend’

Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash found himself the target of intra-party criticism again, as a California colleague accused him of not being serious about his position and lying about the country’s surveillance policies in an interview published…

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Top Ten Answers to global warming Deniers

Top Ten Answers to global warming Deniers

Posted on 6 May 2014 by dana1981 Roy Spencer is one of the less than 3% of climate scientists whose research suggests that humans are playing a relatively minimal role in global warming. As one of those rare contrarian climate experts, he’s often asked…

Juan Cole

Islam-hatred
How Myanmar’s government is making  Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse

How Myanmar’s government is making Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar — “For three days,” Khine recalls, “our town was hell.” As the 32-year-old waitress tells it, the nightmare began with masked men waving Buddhist banners. Then came vigilantes, with torches and blades, butchering families…

Juan Cole

Books
Washington Militarizes Foreign Policy, but cuts Fulbright Cultural Exchange

Washington Militarizes Foreign Policy, but cuts Fulbright Cultural Exchange

(By Ann Jones via Tomdispatch.com) Ignorance can be dangerous, as shown in a recent poll asking Americans what to do about the Ukraine crisis.  It […]

Juan Cole

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Top 10 Reasons GOP Benghazi Witch Hunt is just a Campaign Fundraising Ploy

Top 10 Reasons GOP Benghazi Witch Hunt is just a Campaign Fundraising Ploy

(By Juan Cole) Since Obamacare is increasingly a wildly popular success, the GOP is flailing around looking for an issue, any issue to help fundraising […]

Juan Cole

Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Nuke expert: Iran a decade from bomb, but PM playing politics

Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain

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Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls

Boko Haram attack kills hundreds as Nigeria offers reward for girls (via AFP) A new Boko Haram massacre has killed hundreds in Nigeria’s northeast, a […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

Climate Change in the U.S. in 8 Frightening Charts

By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn The newly released National Climate Assessment spans 30 chapters with thousands of references on how climate change is impacting the U.S. The report took more than 300 scientists and 4 years to prepare, including addressing…

Juan Cole

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