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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

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

02/20/2026 By Nicolas J. S. Davies

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

02/20/2026 By Frida Berrigan

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Top Myths about Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Program

Top Myths about Iran’s Nuclear Enrichment Program

1. Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program is alleged by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be a stealth nuclear weapons program. But there is no […]

Juan Cole

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Netanyahu in 1992:  Iran close to having nuclear bomb

Netanyahu in 1992: Iran close to having nuclear bomb

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is trapped in reflection theory. He was allegedly himself involved in illegally smuggling nuclear triggers out of the US, and […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Top Ten Likely Consequences of Muslim anti-US Embassy Riots

Top Ten Likely Consequences of Muslim anti-US Embassy Riots

1. Tourism in Egypt and Tunisia, the economies of which heavily depend on it, is likely to take a nosedive this fall. It is a […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
The War on Terror Comes to Facebook (Harvey)

The War on Terror Comes to Facebook (Harvey)

Stephanie Harvey writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Facebook, the social networking website with over 955 million profiles, has been used as a ‘honey […]

Juan Cole

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Obama Plays Hardball and Egypt’s Morsi Folds

Obama Plays Hardball and Egypt’s Morsi Folds

The attack on the US consulate in Benghazi happened because the Libyan government is still weak, rebuilding after its revolution against Muammar Qaddafi. But there […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect

Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect

The late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury authored a short story about time travelers. They were careful, when they went back to the Jurassic, not […]

Juan Cole

Syria
The West Will Have to Compromise on Syria (Schmidt)

The West Will Have to Compromise on Syria (Schmidt)

Søren Schmidt writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Syria is neither Egypt nor Libya – and the conflict can therefore not be solved […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (186) “wine educates the soul”

Omar Khayyam (186) “wine educates the soul”

If you give wine               to a                     mountain, you will    […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Romney Poses, as Militants Burn Benghazi Consulate, killing Ambassador, 3 staffers, & Demonstrate in Cairo, over Islamophobic Film

Romney Poses, as Militants Burn Benghazi Consulate, killing Ambassador, 3 staffers, & Demonstrate in Cairo, over Islamophobic Film

Predictably, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to make political hay of the tiny demonstrations in Cairo and Benghazi by Muslim militants. The Benghazi mob […]

Juan Cole

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