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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

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America’s Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org

America’s Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org

America's Competitors Will Use Supreme Court Ruling To Block Our Green Jobs Effort And Close Our Factories | OurFuture.org ‘Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil […]

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NATO to Provide $500 mn. to Bribe Taliban; Seeks Exit beginning 2011; Obama’s Request for 10,000-troop NATO Surge Quietly Rejected

NATO to Provide $500 mn. to Bribe Taliban; Seeks Exit beginning 2011; Obama’s Request for 10,000-troop NATO Surge Quietly Rejected

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have called the London Conference on Afghanistan for domestic political purposes, as a sort of publicity stunt. But the […]

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Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan

Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan

Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan | TomDispatch “The foreign soldiers, most of them tattooed and bearded, then went on to the […]

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Israeli Militarism, Local Conflicts Driving Palestinian Children Crazy

Israeli Militarism, Local Conflicts Driving Palestinian Children Crazy

Flesh and Stone – War is hell on the brain: Doctors map psychological disorders in Gaza and the West Bank “23.2 percent had post-traumatic stress […]

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Foreign Affairs in Obama’s State of the Union: Caught between the Utopian and the Propagandistic

Foreign Affairs in Obama’s State of the Union: Caught between the Utopian and the Propagandistic

Understandably, President Obama concentrated on domestic issues, especially job creation, in his State of the Union address. But there were a few paragraphs toward the […]

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22 Dead, 80 wounded in Baghdad Crime Lab Bombing,

22 Dead, 80 wounded in Baghdad Crime Lab Bombing,

AP reports that guerrillas drove a car bomb into an Interior Ministry crime lab in the Karrada district of Baghdad on Tuesday, only a day […]

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Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu’s office ; Or, Rightwing Politics is Mostly Dirty Tricks

Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu’s office ; Or, Rightwing Politics is Mostly Dirty Tricks

Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu's office – USATODAY.com James O’Keefe, the rightwing activist who tried to punk ACORN by dressing as a […]

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Beauty in Arab Culture Quizas in Arabic: Riachi's "Belaaks"

Beauty in Arab Culture Quizas in Arabic: Riachi’s "Belaaks"

Headline news of the sort on which I concentrate on at Informed Comment is driven by dramatic events, with violence being the most dramatic. But […]

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Juan Cole in Second Life, Virtually Speaking, Thursday at 9 ET

Juan Cole in Second Life, Virtually Speaking, Thursday at 9 ET

Juan Cole will be a guest in the Second Life virtual world on Jay Ackroyd’s Virtually Speaking interview show at 9 pm Eastern, 1/28/2010. Note […]

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