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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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NYPD Attack on OWS and the End of the First Amendment

NYPD Attack on OWS and the End of the First Amendment

Not only did the police, at the orders of billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg, abruptly move on the protesters, they are alleged to have deliberately kept […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Only Green Energy Can Save Yemen

Only Green Energy Can Save Yemen

No one gives any credence to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s pledge on Monday to step down in 90 days, since he’s made such commitments […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Muslim- and Liberal-Hater Breivik Confronted by Survivors in Open Court

Muslim- and Liberal-Hater Breivik Confronted by Survivors in Open Court

Norway’s mass murdered Anders Behring Breivik, a right wing white Christian supremacist who has confessed to killing 77 Labor Party youth activists and allegedly wounded […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Herman Cain Painfully Clueless on Libya

Herman Cain Painfully Clueless on Libya

Herman Cain more or less admits that he has no idea what he would have done about the Libyan Revolution and no idea whether his […]

Juan Cole

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GOPers Promise you War on Iran & Torture & Poverty

GOPers Promise you War on Iran & Torture & Poverty

Saturday’s Republican debate, sponsored by CBS and the National Journal, revealed a Republican field that is promising war on Iran and a revival of the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
No, that wasn’t an al-Qaeda Flag over Benghazi

No, that wasn’t an al-Qaeda Flag over Benghazi

I asked a Libyan scholar about the silly urban legend going around that an “al-Qaeda” flag flew from a government building in Benghazi recently. Here […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Arab League Sets Syria for Suspension

Arab League Sets Syria for Suspension

The Arab League initiated the suspension of Syria’s membership on Saturday, giving Damascus three days to cease shooting down Syrian demonstrators or else the country […]

Juan Cole

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Could Electronic Communication Cooperatives Protect Us?

Could Electronic Communication Cooperatives Protect Us?

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of parliament in Iceland, has written a column in which she complains that the US Department of Justice asked Twitter to […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Pyramids Partially Closed in face of New Age “Threat”

Pyramids Partially Closed in face of New Age “Threat”

The Egyptian Antiquities authority partially closed the Pyramids to foreign tourists on Friday, in an attempt to prevent Western New Age groups from holding rituals […]

Juan Cole

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