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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
Donald Trump

“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

Dan Steinbock

When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

09/22/2025 By Juan Cole

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

09/22/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Israel Tries to Bully Europe over Criticism of Planned 1800 Squatter Units on Palestinian Land

Israel Tries to Bully Europe over Criticism of Planned 1800 Squatter Units on Palestinian Land

(By AFP) Israel hits back at EU over settlement protest (via AFP) Israel called in European ambassadors in a tit-for-tat move on Friday after four […]

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Domestic Surveillance
4 Ways Obama has Misled on NSA Surveillance

4 Ways Obama has Misled on NSA Surveillance

(By Kara Brandeisky) President Obama on Friday announced some reportedly limited reforms to National Security Agency surveillance programs. Since the first disclosures based on documents […]

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Dissent
Assange on Obama Speech:  "Embarrassing," Dragged Kicking and Screaming to Reform by Snowden

Assange on Obama Speech: “Embarrassing,” Dragged Kicking and Screaming to Reform by Snowden

Julian Assange responds to Obama speech on NSA reform at CNN AFP reports: Obama surveillance pledge will change little: Assange (via AFP) WikiLeaks founder Julian […]

Juan Cole

Free Syrian Army
Taking on al-Qaeda:  Syria's Uprising within an Uprising

Taking on al-Qaeda: Syria’s Uprising within an Uprising

(By Rania Abouzeid) It was bound to happen, this uprising within an uprising against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a transnational ultraconservative […]

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Egypt
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I hope you all like the new design. Of course, the changes are a work in progress but 2014 is an important year for Informed […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
The GOP's War on Science Endangering America: Climate Change, Evolution, Regulation

The GOP’s War on Science Endangering America: Climate Change, Evolution, Regulation

The Republican Party is increasingly emerging as an anti-science party. Since American greatness was built on its science and technology (and not on the odd […]

Juan Cole

Beware of self-destructive Turkish propaganda

Beware of self-destructive Turkish propaganda

Yesterday, the Hürriyet Daily News reported about a recent warning by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan to all ambassadors of Turkey who were gathered in Ankara […]

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Gül keeps pressing for a way out

Gül keeps pressing for a way out

Turkish President Abdullah Gül keeps pressing for a way out of the political crisis in the country despite the opposition’s refusal to keep cooperating on […]

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Turkish state fund seizes assets of CHP Istanbul candidate Mustafa Sarıgül

Turkish state fund seizes assets of CHP Istanbul candidate Mustafa Sarıgül

The decision was taken after the current mayor of Istanbul’s Şişli district failed to repay loans worth $3.5 mln taken out in 1998, daily Hürriyet […]

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