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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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Gaza's Health Crisis and Israel's Crimes Against Humanity

Gaza’s Health Crisis and Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity

Israeli air strikes for the past 6 days have killed over 100 Palestinians in Gaza, many of them women and children; one strike deliberately targeted […]

Juan Cole

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Live report from Gaza, attacks on Journalists (Democracy Now!)

Live report from Gaza, attacks on Journalists (Democracy Now!)

From Democracy Now! – a live report from a Gaza hospital The blurb for the show: We get a live report from independent journalist Mohammed […]

Juan Cole

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Could a Gaza Land War lose the Middle East for America?

Could a Gaza Land War lose the Middle East for America?

Abd al-Ra’uf Arna’ut writes in the PLO newspaper al-Ayyam (The Days) that behind the scenes, the Obama administration and its European allies are exerting enormous […]

Juan Cole

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Blaming Gen. Petraeus for the Wrong Mistakes: Remembering Afghanistan (Cook)

Blaming Gen. Petraeus for the Wrong Mistakes: Remembering Afghanistan (Cook)

Regular readers know that I have been critical of Gen. Petraeus’s counterinsurgency doctrine because I found it unrealistic, and I wish the US had just […]

Juan Cole

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Winning the war on Fracking would be the biggest Victory of All (Cantarow)

Winning the war on Fracking would be the biggest Victory of All (Cantarow)

Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch: There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent […]

Juan Cole

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Palestinians say Israel trying to Silence Media, by Attacking Journalists

Palestinians say Israel trying to Silence Media, by Attacking Journalists

The USG Open Source Center translates articles from the Arabic on the Israeli attack on newspapers and journalists in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians Say Israel […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran Sanctions may be ‘Crippling,’ but they are not ‘Working’ (Cher)

Iran Sanctions may be ‘Crippling,’ but they are not ‘Working’ (Cher)

Ladan Cher writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On Iran and sanctions, a necessary clarification: “Crippling” is not synonymous for “working” In the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Top Ten Myths about Israeli Attack on Gaza

Top Ten Myths about Israeli Attack on Gaza

1. Israeli hawks represent themselves as engaged in a ‘peace process’ with the Palestinians in which Hamas refuses to join. In fact, Israel has refused […]

Juan Cole

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If You are 27 or younger, you've never lived through a colder than average month (Bump)

If You are 27 or younger, you’ve never lived through a colder than average month (Bump)

Paul Bump at Grist points out that The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on global temperatures in October 2012 as follows: “The average temperature […]

Juan Cole

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