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As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note
Authoritarianism

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

Arnold Oliver

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

10/02/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

Where does the Arab and Muslim world stand on Trump’s Gaza peace plan? Expert Q&A

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Space Exploration as Reality Show: 1000 chosen for Private Mars Colonization Mission

Space Exploration as Reality Show: 1000 chosen for Private Mars Colonization Mission

(By AFP> More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission (via AFP) More than 1,000 candidates — from 200,000 hopefuls — have been chosen […]

Juan Cole

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GOP isn't Getting more Ignorant on Evolution, it is Just getting Older

GOP isn’t Getting more Ignorant on Evolution, it is Just getting Older

(By Juan Cole) Polling by the Pew Charitable trust shows that the gap between Republicans and Democrats on evolution has substantially widened in just 5 […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria: 73,000 were Killed in 2013 Carnage as Refugees Brace for Winter

Syria: 73,000 were Killed in 2013 Carnage as Refugees Brace for Winter

(By AFP) 73,000 dead in Syria in 2013, war’s bloodiest year (via AFP) More than 73,000 people were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Is a Third Palestinian Uprising on its Way?

Is a Third Palestinian Uprising on its Way?

(By Ruthie Blum) On December 25, Ali Jarbawi published his blockbuster Op-Ed “The Coming Intifada” with The New York Times. ”We Palestinians are living through […]

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art and photography
Street Kebab Chef in Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

Street Kebab Chef in Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

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

Dissent
Egyptian Military Junta Jumps the Shark, Interrogates Islamist Muppet

Egyptian Military Junta Jumps the Shark, Interrogates Islamist Muppet

(By Juan Cole) When the venerable al-Ahram newspaper, then under the control of the government of Hosni Mubarak, published the allegation during the 2011 revolution […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Solar Ascendancy: Minnesota Court Ruling for Solar over Gas a Harbinger of Things to Come

Solar Ascendancy: Minnesota Court Ruling for Solar over Gas a Harbinger of Things to Come

(By Juan Cole) Minnesota Judge Eric Lipman found that solar is a better deal than natural gas for Xcel Energy, permitting Geronimo Energy to construct […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Apple: We didn't help NSA put the Dropoutjeep Backdoor in our iPhones

Apple: We didn’t help NSA put the Dropoutjeep Backdoor in our iPhones

(By Jon Queally) Apple, the company giant behind the iconic iPhone, declared on Monday that is has never assisted the NSA in its efforts to […]

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Turkey
Turkey's Secretive Gulen Movement Challenges its Prime Minister as Religious Right Splits

Turkey’s Secretive Gulen Movement Challenges its Prime Minister as Religious Right Splits

(By Alexander Christie-Miller) The Gulen movement: a self-exiled imam challenges Turkey’s Erdogan (via The Christian Science Monitor) The man some see as the architect of […]

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