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

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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

Drones
Bad Precedent:  Obama’s Drone Doctrine is Nixon’s Cambodia Doctrine (Dietrich)

Bad Precedent: Obama’s Drone Doctrine is Nixon’s Cambodia Doctrine (Dietrich)

Christopher R. W. Dietrich writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The cynical manipulation of legal and historical precedent regarding unmanned targeted killings vehicles […]

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US politics
Chuck Hagel Confirmation Hearings Satire (Saturday Night Live)

Chuck Hagel Confirmation Hearings Satire (Saturday Night Live)

Saturday Night Live’s parody of the Senate confirmation hearings for Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. (Sorry, for US-based viewers only.)

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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.

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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

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