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Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar
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Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bombed the building being used by civilian Hamas negotiators in Doha, Qatar, […]

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

09/10/2025 By The Conversation

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

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Egypt
Egyptian Women Learn Kung Fu for Fighting Sexual Harassment

Egyptian Women Learn Kung Fu for Fighting Sexual Harassment

VOAnews reports “Egyptian Women Learn Martial Arts to Combat Sexual Harassment”

Juan Cole

Climate Change
How the Media Missed the Story of the Millennium:   One Climate Blockbuster after Another

How the Media Missed the Story of the Millennium: One Climate Blockbuster after Another

(By Tom Englehardt) Here’s the scoop: When it comes to climate change, there is no “story,” not in the normal news sense anyway. The fact […]

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film
Director Steven Spielberg speaks at UN Holocaust Remembrance Day: "There are no Bystanders to History"

Director Steven Spielberg speaks at UN Holocaust Remembrance Day: “There are no Bystanders to History”

ITN reports, “Director Steven Spielberg talks at UN Holocaust Remembrance Day”

Juan Cole

censorship
Turkish Gov't Compares Internet Freedom to Battered Spouses

Turkish Gov’t Compares Internet Freedom to Battered Spouses

(Via Techdirt) Turkish Government Says Online Freedom Is Like Violence Against Women (via Techdirt) As anyone who has been following the news knows, Turkey has […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Photo of the Day:  Women in Mosul, 1902

Photo of the Day: Women in Mosul, 1902

From M. E. Hume-Griffith and A. Hume, Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman’s Eight Years’ Residence Amongst the […]

Juan Cole

European Union
Now Peace Talks, John Kerry, are "Anti-Semitic" in Eyes of Israeli Far Right

Now Peace Talks, John Kerry, are “Anti-Semitic” in Eyes of Israeli Far Right

(By Juan Cole) The Likud-led Israeli government doesn’t like US Secretary of State John Kerry at all. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon ridiculed him as “obsessive” […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Christie, Clapper and other Officials who should be in Jail instead of Snowden

Christie, Clapper and other Officials who should be in Jail instead of Snowden

(By Juan Cole) The vindictiveness toward Edward Snowden in official Washington has nothing to do with law-breaking and everything to do with the privileges of […]

Juan Cole

Economy
US Scam: Give the Rich Money & and they might Make us Slightly Less Poor (David "The Wire" Simon)

US Scam: Give the Rich Money & and they might Make us Slightly Less Poor (David “The Wire” Simon)

Bill Moyers interviews David Simon on “America as Horror Show” and the fate of the “extra people” left over once the jobs were shipped to […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Ms. Marvel Comics a lightning Rod for Islamophobic Intolerance

Ms. Marvel Comics a lightning Rod for Islamophobic Intolerance

(By A. David Lewis for IslamiCommentary) A. David Lewis Kamala Khan is not the first Muslim superhero. She’s neither the first American Muslim superhero, the […]

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