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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Libya
Saif admits Qaddafis are Brutal Foreign Occupiers

Saif admits Qaddafis are Brutal Foreign Occupiers

Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of the dictator, gave an interview yesterday to the Washington Post. In it he justified the Libyan army’s horrific attacks on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Soldiers' Brutality at Prison Camp for Palestinians

Israeli Soldiers’ Brutality at Prison Camp for Palestinians

Israeli television has shown shocking cellphone video of the October, 2007, actions at Ketziot Prison, against unarmed Palestinian prisoners, by Israeli security forces. The thousand […]

Juan Cole

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Informed Comment & Big Blog on Campus

Informed Comment & Big Blog on Campus

Pamela Paul includes Informed Comment in her Sunday NYT piece, “Big Blog on Campus.” Favorite line from her interview with me: “Good blogging involves attitude […]

Juan Cole

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Saving What’s Left of the Constitution

Saving What’s Left of the Constitution

Hmm. Somehow I missed this one. The American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against the US government under George W. Bush regarding surveillance of phone calls […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt's Ruling Party Dissolved

Egypt’s Ruling Party Dissolved

A special administrative high court in charge of ruling on Egyptian political party affairs on Saturday declared the former ruling party, the National Democratic Party, […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
Yemeni Women: "We Will not be Silent!"

Yemeni Women: “We Will not be Silent!”

Oh no he di’n’t! Thousands of Yemeni women demonstrated against President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday in Sanaa and Taizz, saying “We will not be […]

Juan Cole

Libya
The Music of the Libyan Resistance

The Music of the Libyan Resistance

Libyan rock guitarist Massoud Abu Assir is entertaining Free Libya forces and volunteers not far from the front lines, says AP. I couldn’t find Abu […]

Juan Cole

Bahrain
Arab Spring Protests Continue

Arab Spring Protests Continue

1. Syria: In the biggest day of protests in Syria so far, tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated against the Baathist state of Bashar al-Asad […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Qaddafi Using Cluster bombs on Civilian Areas

Qaddafi Using Cluster bombs on Civilian Areas

The NYT has confirmed that the pro-Qaddafi military in Misrata is using cluster bombs and other forms of indiscriminate anti-personnel weapon in the middle of […]

Juan Cole

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