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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

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5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas

5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas

An environmental mystery: The blogosphere is abuzz about the mystery of thousands of birds falling out of the sky in Arkansas. Such things happen sometimes […]

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Iraq
Glaspie Memo Vindicates Her, Shows Saddam’s Thinking

Glaspie Memo Vindicates Her, Shows Saddam’s Thinking

Wikileaks has released the July 25, 1990 cable by US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie in which she reported her meeting with Saddam Hussein over […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Christian Crowds Protest Violently in Egypt

Christian Crowds Protest Violently in Egypt

Crowds of Christian youth protested in the hundreds in Alexandria and Cairo on Sunday. The protesters in Alexandria were prevented by riot police from reaching […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Mubarak: We will Cut off the Head of the Snake;  Al-Azhar: This was an Attack on all Egyptians

Mubarak: We will Cut off the Head of the Snake; Al-Azhar: This was an Attack on all Egyptians

The semi-official Egyptian newspaper, al-Ahram, reports that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak asserted in a speech to the nation on Saturday that a foreign hand was […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Top Ten Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

Top Ten Middle East Challenges for U.S. Policy, 2011

10. The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives will attempt to stampede Obama into keeping troops in Iraq, delaying any withdrawals from Afghanistan, […]

Juan Cole

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Map of United Arab Emirates

Map of United Arab Emirates

Juan Cole

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New Year in Dubai

New Year in Dubai

New Year in Dubai

Juan Cole

Iraq
8 Baghdad Bombings Target Christians

8 Baghdad Bombings Target Christians

Al-Safir reports that 2 were killed and 14 wounded in a series of bombings extending over a two-hour period in Baghdad in the late afternoon […]

Juan Cole

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