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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

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Palin:  "We must support our North Korean Allies"

Palin: “We must support our North Korean Allies”

Sarah Palin discussing foreign affairs with Glenn Beck is sort of like Lindsay Lohan discussing sobriety with Paris Hilton. Unsurprisingly, when asked about the Korean […]

Juan Cole

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Photo of the Day:  Nile Valley from Space

Photo of the Day: Nile Valley from Space

NASA image from space of Alexandria, Cairo and the Nile Valley at night. Greater Cairo, now with an estimated population of 18 million, shines like […]

Juan Cole

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Pashtuns lose Parliament, Violence up 70% in Afghanistan

Pashtuns lose Parliament, Violence up 70% in Afghanistan

Most of the results of the disputed parliamentary election in Afghanistan were announced on Wednesday. Altogether 24 candidates were disqualified from parliament because the Independent […]

Juan Cole

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Scammed in Afghanistan

Scammed in Afghanistan

The announcement by the New York Times that one of the supposedly prominent Taliban with whom the Karzai government has been negotiating turns out to […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Tyger, Tyger, a fire snuffed out

Tyger, Tyger, a fire snuffed out

The Romantic poet William Blake wrote, in the age of European colonial expansion and encounter with Asian fauna: TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
Looking for PETN, Scanning Grandma at the Airport, and the Future of Air Travel

Looking for PETN, Scanning Grandma at the Airport, and the Future of Air Travel

In all the furor about the new TSA scanners and pat-downs at airports, what surprises me is that there is very little discussion of what […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Congressional “Study” Attacking Climate Change Found to be Plagiarized, Error-Ridden

Congressional “Study” Attacking Climate Change Found to be Plagiarized, Error-Ridden

A USA Today investigation of a 2006 congressional “study” attacking climate change reveals that 35 of the 91 pages are plagiarized from a textbook by […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NATO sets 2014 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal (but not US), as Thousands demonstrate in London

NATO sets 2014 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal (but not US), as Thousands demonstrate in London

The Afghan Pajhwok News Agency reports a seeming discrepancy between statements of NATO and US officials with regard to when the Afghanistan mission will wind […]

Juan Cole

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Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Keith Olbermann interviews Jonathan Turley on London mayor Boris Johnson’s warning that if Bush comes to Europe to flog his ‘memoirs’, he might be arrested. […]

Juan Cole

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