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Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace
Donald Trump

Trump Warns Iran: Capitulate or Perish — A Call for War from the Board of Peace

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

The deal offered by the United States is simple and straight forward, submit to all American demands or be obliterated

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

Israel’s Bombing decimated Gaza’s cultural sites, as UNESCO responds Tepidly

02/23/2026 By The Conversation

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

How Trump is Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline: An Appointment in Samarra

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Drake the Heroic Whistleblower

Drake the Heroic Whistleblower

Is Thomas Drake, the National Security Agency whistleblower a hero or a criminal? A hero, obviously. Drake revealed to the Baltimore Sun how how the […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Tripoli’s Gradual Collapse:  ICC Indictment of Qaddafi and Ghanem’s Defection

Tripoli’s Gradual Collapse: ICC Indictment of Qaddafi and Ghanem’s Defection

Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has defected from the Qaddafi regime and fled to Tunisia. This defection is a big deal. Ghanem had been at […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Shihade: A New Era for Palestinians

Shihade: A New Era for Palestinians

Magid Shihade writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The Palestinian Unity Agreement and the Beginning of New Era The agreement of reconciliation between […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Arabs:  90% say Qaddafi illegitimate, 75% Want him Forcibly Removed

Arabs: 90% say Qaddafi illegitimate, 75% Want him Forcibly Removed

I received this press release from the Doha Debates (a member of the Qatar Foundation) by email. The results vis-a-vis Libya are not surprising, since […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Meyer: After Bin Laden: Israel & Middle East Peace

Meyer: After Bin Laden: Israel & Middle East Peace

Carlyn Meyer writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: I recently returned from a trip to Israel and the West Bank. I am not […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Arab Spring comes to Israel

The Arab Spring comes to Israel

Contrary to the line taken by the Israeli leadership, the Palestinian protests on May 15, Nakba Day, were not an Iranian or Syrian plot but […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Why was Strauss-Kahn Arrested but W. & Cheney went Free?

Why was Strauss-Kahn Arrested but W. & Cheney went Free?

What is it about the United States that makes for harsh prosecutions over sex crimes but lets leaders off the hook when it comes to […]

Juan Cole

Pakistan
Pakistani Parliament Reacts against US Incursions

Pakistani Parliament Reacts against US Incursions

Pakistan’s elected parliament held a 10-hour session on Friday and decided at the end of it that US incursions, including drone strikes, into Pakistan must […]

Juan Cole

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The Koch Brothers and the End of  State Universities

The Koch Brothers and the End of State Universities

The real scandal around the endowment by the Koch brothers of two chairs at Florida State University is that state universities now have to seek […]

Juan Cole

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