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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman
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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

H. Patricia Hynes

Francesca Albanese stands head and shoulders with the great Nobel-Prize women.  Women won for her dedication to international peace

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

02/14/2026 By Juan Cole

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

02/14/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Video of Russia Meteor Strike (but what if it had been bigger?)

Video of Russia Meteor Strike (but what if it had been bigger?)

Russia Today compiles amateur videos of the meteorite that struck Chelyabinsk, Russia, (900 miles east of Moscow) wounding hundreds, mainly because of flying glass. Here […]

Juan Cole

Bahrain
Bahrain dissidents Commemorate 2 Years of Protest, Condemn Repression

Bahrain dissidents Commemorate 2 Years of Protest, Condemn Repression

The USG Open Source Center translates a report from the Bahrain newspaper al-Wasat for Feb. 14, entitled “Bahraini Opposition Condemns Security Solution, ‘Ill-Treatment’ of Prisoners.” […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Another Kurdish Initiative in Turkey: Is Peace Finally Achievable? (Tezcür)

Another Kurdish Initiative in Turkey: Is Peace Finally Achievable? (Tezcür)

Güneş Murat Tezcür writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The last year saw a significant escalation in the armed conflict between the Turkish […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Arab Television Reacts to Obama’s State of the Union Address, on Afghanistan, Iran (OSC)

Arab Television Reacts to Obama’s State of the Union Address, on Afghanistan, Iran (OSC)

The USG Open Source Center reported on the reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union speech on two major Arabic-language satellite news channels, Aljazeera […]

Juan Cole

Russia
War of Logistics in N. Syria as Rebel Forces Close in on Aleppo Airport

War of Logistics in N. Syria as Rebel Forces Close in on Aleppo Airport

The rebel strategy of taking Syrian government bases and airports in north Syria to prevent the regime from resupplying its forces in the north has […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
America at Peace?  Obama Halving US force in Afghanistan, winds down War

America at Peace? Obama Halving US force in Afghanistan, winds down War

President Obama announced Tuesday that he would pull some 34,000 US troops out of Afghanistan over the next year, about half of the force that […]

Juan Cole

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Despite Offer of Direct Talks, U.S. Intensifies Economic War Against Iran (Democracy Now!)

Despite Offer of Direct Talks, U.S. Intensifies Economic War Against Iran (Democracy Now!)

Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council is interviewed on Democracy Now about US sanctions on Iran and the prospect of talks about Iran’s […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
New Pope has Opportunity to Improve Christian-Muslim Relations

New Pope has Opportunity to Improve Christian-Muslim Relations

Pope Benedict XVI’s suprise announcement on Monday that he plans to resign at the end of this month marks a potential generational change in the […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Ahmadinejad:  US must Cease Militarily Targetting Iran before Direct Negotiations

Ahmadinejad: US must Cease Militarily Targetting Iran before Direct Negotiations

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad replied on the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution to recent US overtures from Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of […]

Juan Cole

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