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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (43)

Omar Khayyam (43)

Fear of mortality and notions of nothingness are your own kind of drunkeness. Otherwise you’d see  that from the  branch of death twigs of immortality grow. […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime

Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime

The Muslim Fundamentalist Palestinian party-militia Hamas, based largely in the Gaza Strip has abruptly broken with its long-time patron, Syria. The leadership has scattered from […]

Juan Cole

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Afro-Asia, Global South Reject Boycott of Iran

Afro-Asia, Global South Reject Boycott of Iran

Despite American assertions that Iran is “internationally isolated,” it turns out that the boycott of that country is a solidly Northern Hemisphere phenomenon and only […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Republicans silent as Netanyahu disses Gen. Dempsey

Republicans silent as Netanyahu disses Gen. Dempsey

Courtesy Paul Jamiol For background see this posting and Ian Master’s recent interview with me on this issue

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (19)

Omar Khayyam (19)

19 The day when I down shots one after one and with total delight become falling down drunk, I’ll work a hundred miracles on every […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Gingrich Endangers US troops by Slamming Obama for Apology over Qur’an Burning

Gingrich Endangers US troops by Slamming Obama for Apology over Qur’an Burning

Newt Gingrich continued to put his entire lack of logic on display on Thursday, when he criticized President Obama for apologizing for the desecration of […]

Juan Cole

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Syria:  The Horror of Homs, a City at War

Syria: The Horror of Homs, a City at War

Some 70 percent of the district of Baba Amr in Homs has been destroyed by artillery fire. Channel 4 in the UK rebroadcast video footage […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghan Parliamentarians call for Jihad Against US

Afghan Parliamentarians call for Jihad Against US

The USG Open Source Center paraphrases Arab satellite television reports on the protests in Afghanistan of the incineration of Qur’ans by the US military. FYI […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation

In the American mind, if Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be drones, those remotely piloted planes getting such great press here.  They have generally been greeted as if they were the sleekest of iPhones armed with missile…

Tom Engelhardt

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