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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

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Grayson: The Reason Republicans hate Government so Much is that they are So Bad at It

Grayson: The Reason Republicans hate Government so Much is that they are So Bad at It

Rep. Alan Grayson: The Bush administration didn’t start any wars by mistake except Iraq, no cities drowned under Bush-Cheney except New Orleans . . . […]

Juan Cole

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A New Middle East Cold War? Ahmadinejad slams Saudi Arabia over Yemen, Gaza

A New Middle East Cold War? Ahmadinejad slams Saudi Arabia over Yemen, Gaza

While American security officials are focused laser-like on the 300 or so al-Qaeda members in rural Maarib province of Yemen, and worry about further strikes […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad as Truther

Ahmadinejad as Truther

Now Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not only questions the extent of the Holocaust but is also a “truther,” saying, absurdly, that the US and Israeli […]

Juan Cole

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Global Earthquake Zones: Western half of Africa looks Safe

Global Earthquake Zones: Western half of Africa looks Safe

If we were smart we’d move to Mali or the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). The world’s earthquake zones according to the US Geological Survey Another […]

Juan Cole

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Pat Robertson’s Racist Blaming of Haitian Victims; and the Televangelist Misuse of History

Pat Robertson’s Racist Blaming of Haitian Victims; and the Televangelist Misuse of History

h/t Daily Kos: Evangelist Pat Robertson manages to blame Haitians for the earthquake, instead of a shift in tectonic plates: And you know Christy, something […]

Juan Cole

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Foreign, Afghan Troops Allegedly Kill 6 at Rally against Western Burning of Qur'an

Foreign, Afghan Troops Allegedly Kill 6 at Rally against Western Burning of Qur’an

Oh, no. Here we go again. Some 2000 villagers from near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province mounted a demonstration against the alleged desecration of the […]

Juan Cole

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How Wall Street Could Help Haiti and Partially Redeem those Bonuses

How Wall Street Could Help Haiti and Partially Redeem those Bonuses

ITN has early video of the earthquake devastation of Port au Prince, Haiti. For a quick overview of the Haitian economy, see this site. It […]

Juan Cole

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6 Allied Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Poll Shows Afghans Upbeat

6 Allied Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Poll Shows Afghans Upbeat

Six NATO troops were killed in hostile action in Afghanistan on Monday, three of them Americans. The US troops appear to have been killed in […]

Juan Cole

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Republicans Reject Reid Half Measures, Embrace Gangsta Rap

Republicans Reject Reid Half Measures, Embrace Gangsta Rap

Satire Republicans were outraged Monday by two-year-old remarks of Democratic Senate Majority leader Harry Reid about the electability of Barack Obama, in which Reid (an […]

Juan Cole

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