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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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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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Deep Democratization in Egypt: How Women are Driving the Changes (Krause)

Deep Democratization in Egypt: How Women are Driving the Changes (Krause)

Wanda Krause writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Political analysts writing on Egypt have tended to focus on the missteps of President Mohamed […]

Juan Cole

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Lawmakers Threaten Brooklyn College for Event on Boycott of Israel over Settlements  (Democracy Now!)

Lawmakers Threaten Brooklyn College for Event on Boycott of Israel over Settlements (Democracy Now!)

Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! reports on the attempt of far right-wing partisans of Israel to quash a courtesy sponsorship by the Department of Political Science […]

Juan Cole

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Drones and Democracy (Moyers Video Interview)

Drones and Democracy (Moyers Video Interview)

Bill Moyers discusses with his guests the question of “Drones and Democracy” The blurb for the show from BillMoyers.com: Vicki Divoll and Vincent Warren on […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy!  (Greenpeace)

Stop the Great Coal Export Conspiracy! (Greenpeace)

Greenpeace USA explains: Big Coal plans to get around Environmental Protection Agency restrictions on toxic emissions by just shipping the coal abroad to countries that […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo

Top Five Objections to the White House’s Drone Killing Memo

NBC’s Michael Isikoff has revealed the text of a white paper composed for Congress by the Department of Justice that sheds light on the legal […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Paranoia Strikes Deep:  A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)

Paranoia Strikes Deep: A Cowering America still Haunted by Bin Laden’s Ghost (Engelhardt)

Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past.  In its wake, President Obama […]

Juan Cole

Drones
Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)

Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit” (Democracy Now!)

Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” reports on the leaked drone memo authorizing killing of American citizens abroad at the president’s order: The blurb for the show: […]

Juan Cole

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