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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

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Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

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Netanyahu 1992:  Iran will Have the Bomb by 1997

Netanyahu 1992: Iran will Have the Bomb by 1997

Scott Peterson at the Christian Science Monitor did a useful timeline for dire Israeli and US predictions of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon, beginning 20 […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (52)

Omar Khayyam (52)

If the heart knew the secret of life as it really is, it would also know, in death, the divine mysteries. Since you know nothing […]

Juan Cole

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Libya Seeking Qaddafi Assets Abroad: Mathiason & Serle

Libya Seeking Qaddafi Assets Abroad: Mathiason & Serle

Libya acts to seize £10m Gaddafi house in London by Nick Mathiason and Jack Serle of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Gaddafis spent four […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Dangers for Obama of Iran Sanctions on behalf of Israel

Top Ten Dangers for Obama of Iran Sanctions on behalf of Israel

President Barack Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on Sunday, warning against loose war talk regarding Iran but also threatening violence against […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Weaponizing the Body Politic

Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Weaponizing the Body Politic

At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California…

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (50)

Omar Khayyam (50)

You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well,  that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb

Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb

Early returns in Iran’s 9th parliamentary election since the 1979 revolution show that Ahmadinejad’s lay populists have taken a drubbing, and that hard line supporters […]

Juan Cole

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Santorum Can't Run Away from Limbaugh, who is just taking Santorum's ideas to their logical conclusion

Santorum Can’t Run Away from Limbaugh, who is just taking Santorum’s ideas to their logical conclusion

Rick Santorum is trying to distance himself from Rush Limbaugh’s slander of Sandra Fluke. He maintains that Limbaugh is just an “entertainer” and that he […]

Juan Cole

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Oceans acidifying faster than anytime in last 300 million Years

Oceans acidifying faster than anytime in last 300 million Years

About 55 million years ago, in the Eocene, volcanic activity spewed enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. The earth warmed by 4-5 degrees […]

Juan Cole

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