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Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right
Donald Trump

Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right

Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza plans have no concrete reality, consisting of a mere Potemkin Village: the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are sleeping rough

Ramadan under the Rubble: Gaza welcomes Holy Month amid Unhealed Wounds

Ramadan under the Rubble: Gaza welcomes Holy Month amid Unhealed Wounds

02/21/2026 By Middle East Monitor

Food and War in Sudan

Food and War in Sudan

02/21/2026 By The Conversation

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Dear GOP:  Please don’t Cut Children’s Food Stamps: Our Rich aren’t Overtaxed

Dear GOP: Please don’t Cut Children’s Food Stamps: Our Rich aren’t Overtaxed

The irrational GOP insistence on bankrupting our government by insisting on exempting the rich from taxes has reached the point where they just kicked 300,000 […]

Juan Cole

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Top Five Things we should be doing to avoid the end of the Earth instead of defaming the Mayans

Top Five Things we should be doing to avoid the end of the Earth instead of defaming the Mayans

The silly hysteria over the world ending December 21, based on a misinterpretation of a Mayan text, should have passed by now, or maybe someone […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Sheldon Adelson’s $155 Million Candidate Buying Spree (Meyer)

Sheldon Adelson’s $155 Million Candidate Buying Spree (Meyer)

Theodoric Meyer writes at ProPublica: Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and emblem of the Citizens United-era of campaign finance, spent gobs of money on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Coming Conflict between the US and Israel (Chernus)

The Coming Conflict between the US and Israel (Chernus)

Ira Chernus writes at Tomdispatch.com Are the U.S. and Israel Heading for a Showdown? No One Thinks So, But It Just Might Happen Here’s the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
UN Security Council Condemns Further Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land, with Rogue State US Vetoing

UN Security Council Condemns Further Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land, with Rogue State US Vetoing

The US acted again as the rogue state at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, with the other 14 members issuing statements condemning Israeli […]

Juan Cole

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Human Rights Abuses in Pakistan’s Tribal Belt: Amnesty Int’l Report (Ross)

Alice K. Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Last week Amnesty International highlighted just how troubled this tribal region is, charting human rights […]

Juan Cole

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Why our Hair is not on Fire about Cutting Emissions, and what to do about it (Giesen)

Why our Hair is not on Fire about Cutting Emissions, and what to do about it (Giesen)

Tom Giesen writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Multiple reasons why global warming mitigation will fail Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing. The […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Benghazi’s Deep Throat fingers Islamist Leaders for Attacks as State Dept Criticized on Consular Security

Benghazi’s Deep Throat fingers Islamist Leaders for Attacks as State Dept Criticized on Consular Security

The report saying that security was inadequate at the compound that the US had adopted as its ad hoc consulate in Benghazi, Libya, dominates today’s […]

Juan Cole

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ALEC, NRA Lobby the American Deep State on Behalf of Semi-Automatic Weapons Sales (Democracy Now)

ALEC, NRA Lobby the American Deep State on Behalf of Semi-Automatic Weapons Sales (Democracy Now)

Democracy Now! reports on how the gun lobby, the NRA, is outspending the gun control advocates by 10 to 1 on Capitol Hill. And Lisa […]

Juan Cole

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