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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Abuse of History for Politics
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Abuse of History for Politics

Yoram Meital

Beersheba (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After his address to an almost empty hall at the UN, Benjamin Netanyahu found a warmer reception at […]

Overwhelming Evidence of Genocide against Palestinians: a Legal Expert unpacks the UN Report on Gaza

Overwhelming Evidence of Genocide against Palestinians: a Legal Expert unpacks the UN Report on Gaza

09/30/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting the Suspension of a Scholar at the University of Kentucky for Statements on Palestine

Protesting the Suspension of a Scholar at the University of Kentucky for Statements on Palestine

09/30/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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And you Want to transport More Oil across America by rail, pipelines?  Canadian Town destroyed by Railroad Oil Cars

And you Want to transport More Oil across America by rail, pipelines? Canadian Town destroyed by Railroad Oil Cars

Train cars carrying petroleum became unmoored and rolled seven miles before jacknifing and exploding, inflicting heavy damage on the town of Lac Megantic in Quebec. […]

Juan Cole

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Breadcrumbs and Circus Reruns:  How and why US News gave Egypt Short Shrift (Cunningham)

Breadcrumbs and Circus Reruns: How and why US News gave Egypt Short Shrift (Cunningham)

Philip J. Cunningham writes in a guest column for IC When the Roman empire fell into decline, the people were treated to bread and circuses. […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: 8 Wounded in Clashes as Salafi Fundamentalists Object to Elbaradei as PM

Egypt: 8 Wounded in Clashes as Salafi Fundamentalists Object to Elbaradei as PM

Amid a general calming on Saturday in Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula remained a hot spot, when a gas pipeline was bombed, probably by Muslim radicals […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Evo Morales of Bolivia joins in Offering Leaker Snowden Asylum

Evo Morales of Bolivia joins in Offering Leaker Snowden Asylum

Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, on Saturday said that he would offer Edward Snowden asylum if asked. He joins the presidents of Venezuela and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Egypt: Fundamentalists hurl Kids from Building, Beat Them (Caution: Explicit)

Egypt: Fundamentalists hurl Kids from Building, Beat Them (Caution: Explicit)

This video is circulating via YouTube showing two kids being hurled from what looks like a 20-feet-high parapet to the roof of an apartment building […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Brotherhood, Army risk Civil War: 30 Dead, Hundreds Wounded

Brotherhood, Army risk Civil War: 30 Dead, Hundreds Wounded

Egypt veered sharply toward the looming specter of civil war on Friday, as the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood continued to call for resistance to […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Venezuela’s Maduro: Unlike US Asylees, Snowden didn’t Blow anything Up, just said ‘This is not Right’

Venezuela’s Maduro: Unlike US Asylees, Snowden didn’t Blow anything Up, just said ‘This is not Right’

Globovision reports that President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Friday offered asylum to US leaker Edward Snowden, in order, he said, to protect him from […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Gil Scott-Heron Explains 'The Revolution will not be Televised'

Gil Scott-Heron Explains ‘The Revolution will not be Televised’

Gil Scott-Heron explains what he meant by the phrase “The Revolution will not be Televised”

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt: One Soldier Dead, 3 Wounded, as Muslim Brotherhood Clashes with Army, Secularists in Provinces

Egypt: One Soldier Dead, 3 Wounded, as Muslim Brotherhood Clashes with Army, Secularists in Provinces

The markets in Egypt reacted with sheer joy to the Egyptian Revolution 3.0, with the Egyptian stock market rising 7% and adding billions to the […]

Juan Cole

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