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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

09/10/2025 By The Conversation

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

Is Trump Christian America’s Golden Calf?

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Energy
Will Obama Stand up to the Keystone XL Pipeline & Climate-Destroying Tar Sands? (Klare)

Will Obama Stand up to the Keystone XL Pipeline & Climate-Destroying Tar Sands? (Klare)

Michael T. Klare writes at Tomdispatch.com: Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
On How the visit of Iran’s Ahmadinejad  to Egypt was a Dud

On How the visit of Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Egypt was a Dud

The first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt, in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution against […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
On How Americans are being Gouged and Made more Unequal by the Internet Monopolies (Moyers Video Interview)

On How Americans are being Gouged and Made more Unequal by the Internet Monopolies (Moyers Video Interview)

Bill Moyers interviews Susan Crawford on the virtual monopoly on internet provision held in the US by a few companies, who overcharge those who can […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Why Tunisia’s Arab Spring is in Turmoil

Why Tunisia’s Arab Spring is in Turmoil

On Friday, tens of thousands of Tunisians took to the streets to protest the shocking assassination of leftist, secular politician Chokri Belaid earlier this week. […]

Juan Cole

US politics
American Torture:  The 50-Nation Hall of Shame (Jamiol Cartoon)

American Torture: The 50-Nation Hall of Shame (Jamiol Cartoon)

courtesy Jamiol’s World by Paul Jamiol.

Juan Cole

Drones
When we Kill without Caring: Bill Moyers on the Downside of Drones (Video)

When we Kill without Caring: Bill Moyers on the Downside of Drones (Video)

Bill Moyers on the downside of droning our enemies to death. The blurb: In a web-extended version of his broadcast essay, Bill Moyers gives examples […]

Juan Cole

CIA
Top Ten Surprises of the Brennan Hearing on CIA Torture and Drones

Top Ten Surprises of the Brennan Hearing on CIA Torture and Drones

The confirmation hearing for John Brennan allowed the country to grapple with many issues that had been swept under the rug and seldom discussed in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Are today’s Drone Strikes still covered by the 2001 Congressional Authorization of Use of Force? (Currier)

Are today’s Drone Strikes still covered by the 2001 Congressional Authorization of Use of Force? (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica: Drone Strikes Test Legal Grounds for War on Terror In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama declared that “a decade […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan

Naming the Dead Killed by US Drones: (Bureau of Investigative Journalism)

The Drones Team at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism writes: The Bureau is launching an ambitious new investigation, which will seek to identify as many […]

Juan Cole

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