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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

08/23/2025 By ProPublica

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

08/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Solar Car of the Future:  Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Solar Car of the Future: Sunswift Solar Two-Seater looks like an ordinary Coupe

Giles Parkinson writes that this year Sunswift is making a revolutionary and exciting entry in the annual University of New South Wales solar car competition: […]

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Domestic Surveillance
How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

How the National Security State creates its own Whistleblowers, with a Letter to the Next One (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Dear Whistleblower, I don’t know who you are or what you do or how old you may be. I just […]

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Syria
UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime

When reports of a chemical weapons attack in Rif Dimashq near Damascus on August 21 first surfaced, some observers questioned whether these were really chemical […]

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44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US;  US Navy now Menaced

44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US; US Navy now Menaced

Aaron Alexis carried out the mass murder of 13 people at the Navy Yard with an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun. AR-15 Bushmasters are […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Thousand-Year Flood in Colorado:  Climate Change & Extreme Weather

Thousand-Year Flood in Colorado: Climate Change & Extreme Weather

Commondreams.org writes The number of people missing or "unaccounted for" amid what experts are calling a thousand-year flood event in Colorado, is now more than […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists

The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists

The hawks who are deeply disappointed that diplomacy has likely forestalled a US military intervention in Syria in the foreseeable future often attempt to tug […]

Juan Cole

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Summers withdraws from Fed consideration; Won’t be Rewarded for Beggaring Us All

Summers withdraws from Fed consideration; Won’t be Rewarded for Beggaring Us All

Economist Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration for chairman of the Federal Reserve last night, even though he had been increasingly considered the favorite […]

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Syria
The World after the Kerry-Lavrov accord on Syria

The World after the Kerry-Lavrov accord on Syria

The agreement reached by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at Geneva on Saturday regarding the sequester of Syria’s […]

Juan Cole

Syria
7 Million Displaced Syrians, Bayda Massacre, & other Reports you Didn't see on American TV

7 Million Displaced Syrians, Bayda Massacre, & other Reports you Didn’t see on American TV

American network & cable television has been focused his week on US-Russian diplomacy with relatively little coverage (aside from Ben Wedemann on CNN and a […]

Juan Cole

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