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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing
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Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

Dan Steinbock

As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child

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Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

11/15/2025 By Richard Drake

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

How China Is Turning Climate Action into Economic Strategy

11/15/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012

My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve…

Juan Cole

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Turkey Warns against Sunni-Shiite Civil War in Mideast

Turkey Warns against Sunni-Shiite Civil War in Mideast

Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu Ahmet Davutoglu warned Wednesday in Tehran against a Sunni-Shiite civil war in the Middle East, which he said was being encouraged […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (1) [Whinfield 26]

Omar Khayyam (1) [Whinfield 26]

In these one,     two,        three days       a lifetime has passed, like cascading waters     or a desert squall. But regret for two days […]

Juan Cole

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US sees Iranian Military Spending as Threat

US sees Iranian Military Spending as Threat

courtesy Ben Adler @ Reuters

Juan Cole

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Three Republican Bears and none Just Right

Three Republican Bears and none Just Right

Why did Mitt Romney win Iowa? Not because he is the ideal candidate, but because the Republican faithful will just have to settle. That the […]

Juan Cole

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Reading in the New Millennium: Cole at Truthdig

Reading in the New Millennium: Cole at Truthdig

My essay, “Reading in the New Millennium: Forward to the Past?” is out at Truthdig. Excerpt: “I have been rereading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s two-volume “Essays” […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Lessons from Lost Wars in 2012

It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact.  It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana.  It was to be “mission accomplished” all the way.  And then, of course, it wasn’t.  And t…

Tom Engelhardt

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Will his New Sanctions on Iran Cost Obama the Presidency?

Will his New Sanctions on Iran Cost Obama the Presidency?

A sharp drop in the value of the Iranian currency as a result of new American sanctions may sound like good news to hawks in […]

Juan Cole

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Conservative White People’s Primary

Conservative White People’s Primary

What Iowa looks like with regard to ethnicity (2010 Census): What the United States looks like (2010 Census)

Juan Cole

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