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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crowds demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

08/10/2025 By ProPublica

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

08/10/2025 By The Conversation

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Syria
Toothless UNSC Condemnation of Syria shows Russian, Chinese Clout

Toothless UNSC Condemnation of Syria shows Russian, Chinese Clout

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday issued a “presidential statement,” one step below a resolution, chiding the Syrian government for its violent repression of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Mubarak on Trial but W. Is Not

Mubarak on Trial but W. Is Not

The July 8 protests spearheaded by young Egyptian leftists to demand accountability and transparency were rewarded Wednesday by publicly broadcast trial proceedings against former president […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syrian Massacre in Hama Sparks More EU Sanctions

Syrian Massacre in Hama Sparks More EU Sanctions

Syria’s concerted military intervention against peacefully protesting crowds at the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan has resulted in dozens of deaths, especially in […]

Juan Cole

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Gingrich Accused of Twitter Fraud

Gingrich Accused of Twitter Fraud

Newt Gingrich has ten times as many Twitter followers as Mitt Romney, but it is being alleged that most of them are dummy accounts or […]

Juan Cole

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Zakaria: Tea Party Tactics Immoral, Dictatorial

Zakaria: Tea Party Tactics Immoral, Dictatorial

Vice President Joe Biden may or may not have concurred with some disgruntled Democratic politicians that in the negotiations over the debt ceiling, the Tea […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Eissenstat:  Turkey’s Generals Resign

Eissenstat: Turkey’s Generals Resign

Howard Eissenstat writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Turkey’s Generals Resign: Thoughts on a New Chapter in Turkish Politics For most of my […]

Juan Cole

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Sound and Fury:  Americans Actually Lightly Taxed

Sound and Fury: Americans Actually Lightly Taxed

The following chart is a slightly shortened version of the one at The Globe and Mail, which demonstrates that US tax rates are among the […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Cheek:  We have no Liberty without Energy Freedom

Cheek: We have no Liberty without Energy Freedom

Martin Cheek, co-author of Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Americans Must […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Al-Tamimi: The Norway Attacks and the Paranoid Mindset

Al-Tamimi: The Norway Attacks and the Paranoid Mindset

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The Norway Attacks and the Paranoid Mindset It has emerged that Anders Breivik- who […]

Juan Cole

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