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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report
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Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Juan Cole

Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”

The Power Play President

The Power Play President

01/08/2026 By John Feffer

Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

Iran Protests have put the Country’s Political System on Trial

01/08/2026 By The Conversation

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Béji:  “We are all Tunisian Jews”

Béji: “We are all Tunisian Jews”

Hélé Béji, a prominent woman writer from an old notable family in Tunis, was outraged by an incident in early January when a small crowd […]

Juan Cole

Israel/Palestine
GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”

GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”

The Republican candidates for president once again tried to out-do the Likud Party in their devotion to the doctrine of the Iron Wall and their […]

Juan Cole

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Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue

Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue

Perhaps 100,000 Egyptians came out on Wednesday in Tahrir Square in Cairo to mark the anniversary of the first massive protest that led to the […]

Juan Cole

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SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East

SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address treated the Middle East at several points, underlining the unusual importance of this region to the United […]

Juan Cole

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Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)

Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)

World military spending in 2010. Note that Iran’s is not a big enough proportion of world arms spending to show up on this graph, which […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU

Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU

Graffiti from Mission Street, San Francisco in honor of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation kicked off the Tunisian Revolution, inspired the Tahrir Square demonstrations, and the […]

Juan Cole

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Tomgram: William Astore, Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict

Tomgram: William Astore, Confessions of a Recovering Weapons Addict

Perhaps you’ve heard of “Makin’ Thunderbirds,” a hard-bitten rock & roll song by Bob Seger that I listened to 30 years ago while in college…

Juan Cole

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Can Europe’s Oil Boycott Really Sink Iran?

Can Europe’s Oil Boycott Really Sink Iran?

The European Union threatened Iran on Monday with cutting off petroleum imports into the 27 EU member states, and announced sanctions on Iranian banks and […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America

Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America

This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains…

Juan Cole

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