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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Islamophobia
Hating Muslims in America

Hating Muslims in America

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the incoming chair of the House committee on Homeland Security has announced that he will hold hearings into the ‘radicalization’ of […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq’s al-Maliki Rebuffed on Incomplete Cabinet

Iraq’s al-Maliki Rebuffed on Incomplete Cabinet

Al-Hayat writes in Arabic that prospective Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki faced severe opposition on Monday to his insistence on announcing the formation of a government […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
HRW on Israeli Racial Discrimination in West Bank

HRW on Israeli Racial Discrimination in West Bank

Human Rights Watch has issued a new report on racial discrimination against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. HRW writes: ‘Israel operates a two-tier system […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban Strike Qunduz, Kabul, Kill 16

Taliban Strike Qunduz, Kabul, Kill 16

Taliban or other radicals showed Sunday that they could strike far from their strongholds in the south and east of Afghanistan. They hit the capital, […]

Juan Cole

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Senate Repeal of DADT in Global Context

Senate Repeal of DADT in Global Context

Conservative religious fanatics lost on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and anti-gay discrimination. The scary thing is, that since it is clear that fear-mongering on gays […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Lawsuit over Drones in Pakistan forces CIA Station Chief to Flee

Lawsuit over Drones in Pakistan forces CIA Station Chief to Flee

The Guardian reports that a lawsuit brought by a Pakistani journalist over wrongful deaths in drone strikes has forced the CIA station chief in Islamabad […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Iraq Arrests Dozens in Terror Sweep, Offers Help to Iran

Iraqi authorities are going for the trifecta. They are finally forming a new government, nine months after the March parliamentary elections, to be headed by […]

Juan Cole

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Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

Stewart: Aljazeera Pays More Attention to First Responders than Senate Republicans, US Networks

The Republican Party has since September 11, 2001, been absolutely insufferable in invoking those attacks at every possible moment for every possible reason, and in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Movement for Palestinian State gains International Momentum, to Dismay of US Congress

Movement for Palestinian State gains International Momentum, to Dismay of US Congress

Palestinian authorities on Thursday protested the resolution passed by the US congress on Wednesday condemning movement toward a unilateral declaration by Palestinians of a Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

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