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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

02/26/2026 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Matt Taibbi on Big Banks’ Lack of Accountability (Moyers Video Interview)

Matt Taibbi on Big Banks’ Lack of Accountability (Moyers Video Interview)

Bill Moyers interviews Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi on why banksters who clearly engaged in illegal activity that crashed the American economy have been held […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Arts under the Occupation: Dispatch from Palestine (Quran)

Arts under the Occupation: Dispatch from Palestine (Quran)

LAYLA QURAN writes at ISLAMiCommentary: Layla Quran (pictured outside Ofer Prison, left) is a sophomore global studies major at University of North Carolina at Chapel […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Chuck Hagel Mauled in Bizarro World of US Senate

Chuck Hagel Mauled in Bizarro World of US Senate

The confirmation hearing in the Senate for Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, was painful to watch because it displayed the tomfoolery, […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Why the Senate should Confirm Chuck Hagel as SecDef

Why the Senate should Confirm Chuck Hagel as SecDef

Reprint edn.: this appeared earlier, but is a propos of today’s Senate confirmation hearings. A future column will treat that process: I doubt Chuck Hagel, […]

Juan Cole

Israel
Russia slams Israeli bombing of Syria as Violation of UN Charter

Russia slams Israeli bombing of Syria as Violation of UN Charter

The USG Open Source Center translates the statement at the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sharply condemning Israel: Text of “Russian Foreign […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Is Egypt on the Verge of Civil War? Morsi backs off Emergency Decree

Is Egypt on the Verge of Civil War? Morsi backs off Emergency Decree

Minister of Defense Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that if the country’s turmoil continued, Egypt faced the possibility of a collapse of the state. […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syrian Horror Show, as Obama, Kuwait Pledge Refugee Aid (+ Cole Interview)

Syrian Horror Show, as Obama, Kuwait Pledge Refugee Aid (+ Cole Interview)

The UN donors’ conference in Kuwait made some progress on Wednesday morning toward its goal of $1 billion in aid to the some 700,000 Syrian […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt:  Canal Provinces Defy Morsi, Weakening his Authority

Egypt: Canal Provinces Defy Morsi, Weakening his Authority

The canal cities of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez rejected the imposition of a curfew and of emergency laws on them Monday night. In the […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Immigration and the Future of America (Chart)

Immigration and the Future of America (Chart)

Immigration to the US is if anything accelerating. The 1924-1965 immigration law had been racist and set strict quotas for everyone but northern Europeans. Since […]

Juan Cole

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