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Genocide Scholars:  Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
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Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 […]

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

09/06/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

09/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Obama Jokes with White House Correspondents (Video)

Obama Jokes with White House Correspondents (Video)

President Obama at 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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How You became a Guinea Pig for the Chemical Corporations (Rosner and Markowitz)

How You became a Guinea Pig for the Chemical Corporations (Rosner and Markowitz)

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz write at Tomdispatch.com A hidden epidemic is poisoning America.  The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water […]

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Are Chemical Weapons use in Syria really Obama’s Red line? (Feaver)

Are Chemical Weapons use in Syria really Obama’s Red line? (Feaver)

Julie Poucher Harbin presents an interview with Peter Feaver via Islamicommentary According to an assessment signed by White House director of the office of legislative […]

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Six Myths about Bush Torture Punctured by New Report (Thompson)

Six Myths about Bush Torture Punctured by New Report (Thompson)

Christie Thompson writes at ProPublica: Among the news that ended up being buried in the events of [two weeks ago]: A nonpartisan think tank, the […]

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The Changing map of Europe and the Middle East, 1000 - 2000 (10-min. Video)

The Changing map of Europe and the Middle East, 1000 – 2000 (10-min. Video)

The changing map of Europe and the Middle East for the last thousand years, in 10 minutes.

Juan Cole

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Steven Spielberg's "Obama," with Tracy Morgan as Joe Biden

Steven Spielberg’s “Obama,” with Tracy Morgan as Joe Biden

Satire Spoof shown at this year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner: Steven Spielberg’s “Obama,” starring Daniel Day Lewis, with Tracy Morgan as Joe Biden:

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Islam
Pot and Partying:  Top Ten Signs the Tsarnaev Brothers Weren’t Pious Muslims

Pot and Partying: Top Ten Signs the Tsarnaev Brothers Weren’t Pious Muslims

Recent press revelations have confirmed my initial suggestion that members of the Tsarnaev family were secular ex-Soviets rather than observant Muslims Only a few years […]

Juan Cole

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Glenn Greenwald on the Price of Government Secrecy (Moyers interview)

Glenn Greenwald on the Price of Government Secrecy (Moyers interview)

Bill Moyers interviews Glenn Greenwald on the high cost of government secrecy. The blurb for the show: “The violent Boston rampage triggered a local and […]

Juan Cole

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Serbia and Kosovo: A European Success Story? (Trix)

Serbia and Kosovo: A European Success Story? (Trix)

Frances Trix writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On 19 April 2013 the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica […]

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