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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, […]

Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

09/11/2025 By Mark Vernon

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

Why Conflict Refugees are Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks

09/10/2025 By The Conversation

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Campaign Humor from the Candidates: Obama and Romney do Stand-Up

Campaign Humor from the Candidates: Obama and Romney do Stand-Up

Barack Obama tells jokes at the Al Smith dinner, three weeks before the election. Obama observes that he was much more awake in the second […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
The US & Pakistan: The Mr & Mrs Smith of Foreign Policy (Hiro)

The US & Pakistan: The Mr & Mrs Smith of Foreign Policy (Hiro)

Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com: The Alliance from Hell How the U.S. and Pakistan Became the Dysfunctional Nuclear Family of International Relations The United States […]

Juan Cole

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A Letter from Benghazi on Crappy Republican Talking Points

A Letter from Benghazi on Crappy Republican Talking Points

A common friend sent me this message from a resident of Benghazi, Libya: === I’m so fed up with all the nonsense that’s repeated over […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Creepy Israeli Planning for Palestinian Food Insecurity in Gaza Revealed

Creepy Israeli Planning for Palestinian Food Insecurity in Gaza Revealed

An Israeli human rights organization, Gisha, sued in Israeli courts to force the release of a planning document for ‘putting the Palestinians on a diet’ […]

Juan Cole

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Two Canadians Discover the US has become a Police State

Two Canadians Discover the US has become a Police State

From YouTube: “If you’re told to do something, do it without asking the reason.”

Juan Cole

Libya
Romney Binder full of Top Ten Mistakes and Falsehoods

Romney Binder full of Top Ten Mistakes and Falsehoods

1. Romney attempted to convey the impression that he has worked to increase women’s employment as governor, reaching out to women’s groups and receiving “binders […]

Juan Cole

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US Drone Strikes on Pakistan: Counting the Bodies (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism The US government must release its estimates of how many people are being killed in […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
10,000 Syrian Refugees Trapped on Iraq & Turkish Borders

10,000 Syrian Refugees Trapped on Iraq & Turkish Borders

Human Rights Watch is calling on Iraq and Turkey to open their borders in Syria’s northeast to allow the passage of some 10,000 Syrian refugees, […]

Juan Cole

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Malala Yousufzai taken to UK for Treatment; and Pakistan’s Education Shame

Malala Yousufzai taken to UK for Treatment; and Pakistan’s Education Shame

Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai, shot in the head by the Taliban in the Swat Valley of Pakistan for demanding the right to an education, is being […]

Juan Cole

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