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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

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Remembering Syria:  Homs 'Ghost Town' Under heavy Regime Bombardment

Remembering Syria: Homs ‘Ghost Town’ Under heavy Regime Bombardment

In winter of 2012, the world was mesmerized and horrified as the Syrian Baath regime drew up artillery pieces and its tanks and fired on […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
In Chilling Ruling, Chevron is Granted Access to Amazon Activists’ Private Emails

In Chilling Ruling, Chevron is Granted Access to Amazon Activists’ Private Emails

"Sweeping" subpoena violates rights of those who spoke out against oil giant's devastating actions in Ecuador – Lauren McCauley writes at Commondreams “Following their guilty […]

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Egypt
Aljazeera’s Conspiracy Theory about Obama and Egypt is Brainless Mush

Aljazeera’s Conspiracy Theory about Obama and Egypt is Brainless Mush

Aljazeera Arabic has long since lost a lot of its previous journalisic standards, once its head, Waddah Khanfar, was fired in favor a member of […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Middle East Regional Contention over Egypt’s New Government

Middle East Regional Contention over Egypt’s New Government

The change of government in Egypt produced starkly different reactions in various Middle Eastern countries, which tells us something about the situation there. With the […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
The Gezi Park Protests:  Is Turkey becoming Egypt?  (Schubel)

The Gezi Park Protests: Is Turkey becoming Egypt? (Schubel)

Vernon Schubel writes at ISLAMiCommentary: Vernon James Schubel On May 31st of this year a protest over the fate of Gezi Park, located near Istanbul’s […]

Juan Cole

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Step on it! Impala leaps into truck to escape cheetahs (Video)

Step on it! Impala leaps into truck to escape cheetahs (Video)

Here is the video from South Africa:

Juan Cole

Egypt
The Rebellion Movement Denounces Mansour’s Constitutional Principles as Dictatorial

The Rebellion Movement Denounces Mansour’s Constitutional Principles as Dictatorial

If the Egyptian military and judicial elite thought that they could use the youthful Rebellion Movement, which put three or four million demonstrators in the […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Argentina's President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage gave me Chills down my Spine

Argentina’s President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage gave me Chills down my Spine

The relationship between the United States and Latin America may have just plunged to its lowest level since the 1910s and 1920s, the height of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt

Egypt: A People’s Revolution, Not a Crisis or Coup (Nawal El Saadawi)

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi writes at IslamiCommentary (translated by miriam cooke) Every revolution in history has had its counter-revolution. Most recently, internal and […]

Juan Cole

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