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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis
Children

17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis

Juan Cole

The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers

Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

02/26/2026 By The Conversation

Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

02/26/2026 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Afghanistan
The Horrors of Peace for the US Elite: Bashing ‘Isolationism,’ Blaming it for War (Bacevich)

The Horrors of Peace for the US Elite: Bashing ‘Isolationism,’ Blaming it for War (Bacevich)

Andrew J. Bacevich writes at Tomdispatch.com: The abiding defect of U.S. foreign policy? It’s isolationism, my friend. Purporting to steer clear of war, isolationism fosters […]

Juan Cole

CIA
How the US Government Betrayed the Constitution and invented an Imaginary Fascist One

How the US Government Betrayed the Constitution and invented an Imaginary Fascist One

The idea of having a strong Federal government was controversial in the early United States, and one of the ways Federalists reassured Americans that it […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
No, NSA snooping didn't foil 50 Terrorist Attacks (Elliot & Meyer)

No, NSA snooping didn’t foil 50 Terrorist Attacks (Elliot & Meyer)

Claim on “Attacks Thwarted” by NSA Spreads Despite Lack of Evidence Justin Elliot and Theodoric Meyer write at ProPublica Two weeks after Edward Snowden’s first […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Why the US needs Electric Cars:  Saudi Arabia threatens Pivot away from US

Why the US needs Electric Cars: Saudi Arabia threatens Pivot away from US

The royal family of Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with no constitution and no elected legislature, is in a snit about US foreign policy. King […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Rights Groups: Some US Drone Strikes are War Crimes (Oldroyd)

Rights Groups: Some US Drone Strikes are War Crimes (Oldroyd)

Rachel Oldroyd writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Leading human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have raised serious concerns about the […]

Juan Cole

Christianity
Egypt's Coptic Christians Protest Killing by Fundamentalists of 4 at Church

Egypt’s Coptic Christians Protest Killing by Fundamentalists of 4 at Church

Coptic Christians in Egypt staged a big demonstration on Monday to protest the shooting deaths of four church-goers at the Church of the Virgin in […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
America may Shutter the Gov’t, but not the Gov’t’s Wars (Astore)

America may Shutter the Gov’t, but not the Gov’t’s Wars (Astore)

William J. Astore writes at Tomdispatch: There is a new normal in America: our government may shut down, but our wars continue.  Congress may not […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Israeli Settlers Chop down more Palestinian Olive Trees (having destroyed 800,000 since 1967)

Israeli Settlers Chop down more Palestinian Olive Trees (having destroyed 800,000 since 1967)

Israeli settlers over the weekend used chain saws to destroy some 100 Palestinian olive trees in Qaryut village near the West Bank city of Nablus. […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Sanders: Climate Change more Menacing than Terrorism (Germanos)

Sanders: Climate Change more Menacing than Terrorism (Germanos)

Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams.org: In a newly published interview, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasts the "unfettered capitalism" that has collapsed the middle class, and […]

Juan Cole

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