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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

Dan Steinbock

When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

09/22/2025 By Juan Cole

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

09/22/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (12)

Omar Khayyam (12)

Although we partiers may have good color and smell pleasant, with cheeks like rubies; and though we’re tall as a cypress– it’s just not clear, […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, In Washington, Fear the Silence, Not the Noise

Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, In Washington, Fear the Silence, Not the Noise

The Obama administration has already charged more people — six — under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. (Prior to Obama, there were only three such cases in American history.)
…

Juan Cole

Africa
World’s 1.6 Billion Poor Going Green

World’s 1.6 Billion Poor Going Green

Renewable energy is often thought of as an initiative of advanced, sane countries such as Portugal and Germany. But there is another arena where green […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (8)

Omar Khayyam (8)

A lover all his life is frantic and intoxicated– crazy, distracted and disgraced. When we’re sober, everything annoys us; but when we’re drunk, whatever will […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria: Crimes Against Humanity in Homs

Syria: Crimes Against Humanity in Homs

The Telegraph (UK) has put the word “genocide” in its headline as a description of what has been going on in Syria. On Wednesday morning, […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Chinese Envoy:  Veto aimed at Protecting Syria from Civil War

Chinese Envoy: Veto aimed at Protecting Syria from Civil War

The USG Open Source Center translates from the Chinese an article that includes an explanation of China’s veto of a new UN Security Council resolution […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Why the Energy-Industrial Elite Has It In for the Planet

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Why the Energy-Industrial Elite Has It In for the Planet

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet –…

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam 16

Omar Khayyam 16

Before time ever was, You fashioned the divine handiwork of heaven and hell– out of compassion and rage. Your banquet is in heaven, and I […]

Juan Cole

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Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

Hoekstra Blames Everyone but Himself for the Deficits He Voted for

It is hard to decide what is the most despicable thing about senatorial Republican hopeful Pete Hoekstra’s Superbowl ad attacking rival Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. […]

Juan Cole

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