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The Israeli Military’s Denial of the Gaza Death Toll was always to Shape Western News Reporting
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The Israeli Military’s Denial of the Gaza Death Toll was always to Shape Western News Reporting

Juan Cole

The horrid Bill Maher and his guest Van Jones even guffawed about dead Gaza babies.

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

01/31/2026 By The Conversation

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

01/31/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

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Gov’t lost its legitimacy: Turkey's main opposition leader

Gov’t lost its legitimacy: Turkey's main opposition leader

Turkey’s main opposition leader has raised the pressure on the government over the massive graft probe

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Arab Spring
Egypt Military Junta Sentences 2011 Revolutionaries to 3 Years Hard Labor

Egypt Military Junta Sentences 2011 Revolutionaries to 3 Years Hard Labor

Egypt court jails anti-Mubarak activists for 3 years (via AFP) An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced three activists who spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Hosni […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Obama warns South Sudan against Coup as US Plane comes under Fire

Obama warns South Sudan against Coup as US Plane comes under Fire

Obama warns S. Sudan against military coup (via AFP) President Barack Obama warned South Sudan on Saturday that Washington and its allies would cut aid […]

Juan Cole

Popular Culture
SNL:  Not only is Santa Black, but one of his Reindeers is Gay

SNL: Not only is Santa Black, but one of his Reindeers is Gay

Kenan Thompson and Cecily Strong make fun of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and her silly insistence that “Santa Clause is white.” (See also IC’s take […]

Juan Cole

poetry
Walt Whitman’s “Salut au Monde” (Poem of the Day)

Walt Whitman’s “Salut au Monde” (Poem of the Day)

(By Walt Whitman) “Salut au Monde” [Greeting to the World: from Leaves of Grass, 1856] 1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! […]

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Iran
Iranian-Armenian Nurse taking an X-Ray in Isfahan, 1900 (Photo of the Day)

Iranian-Armenian Nurse taking an X-Ray in Isfahan, 1900 (Photo of the Day)

(By Juan Cole) This amazing photograph probably dates to 1900. Taken in at the Christian Mission Society hospital in Julfa, the Armenian neighborhood of Isfahan, […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors:  Was the Law Broken?  Did Obama Know?

NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors: Was the Law Broken? Did Obama Know?

(By Juan Cole) Reuters gets the scoop: the National Security Agency gave internet security firm RSA some $10 million to use an NSA encryption formula […]

Juan Cole

astronomy and outer space
Real-Life "Gravity:"  Space Repair Walk and NASA's Breakthroughs 2013

Real-Life “Gravity:” Space Repair Walk and NASA’s Breakthroughs 2013

CBS reports on today’s space walk by astronauts to repair the cooling system at the International Space Station: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reports […]

Juan Cole

Drones
How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned?

How many American Weddings would have to get hit by Drones before they were Banned?

(By Tom Engelhardt) The headline — “Bride and Boom!” — was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a […]

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