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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman
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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to turn Israel into a 21st century version of the Flying Dutchman. […]

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

07/27/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

07/27/2025 By ProPublica

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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim:  Niass & Shahzad

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Niass & Shahzad

I received some snarky message after the Shahzad attempted bombing in Times Square, asking if I were still standing behind the idea of Islam as […]

Juan Cole

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Lieberman’s Modest Gulag Proposal

Lieberman’s Modest Gulag Proposal

In order to prevail in his attempt to have the US citizenship of ‘obvious terrorists’ revoked, Sen Joe Lieberman would have to overturn the Fourteenth […]

Juan Cole

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Parliament as a whole may have to Choose Iraqi Prime Minister

Parliament as a whole may have to Choose Iraqi Prime Minister

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that despite their announced coalition, the religious Shiite State of Law and National Iraqi Alliance lists will probably have to resort […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Shiite Parties Form Largest Coalition in Iraq; Ayatollahs to choose PM; Win for Iran

Shiite Parties Form Largest Coalition in Iraq; Ayatollahs to choose PM; Win for Iran

The pan-Arab London daily al-Hayat [Life] reports in Arabic that sources close to the two major Shiite coalitions have revealed that they will form a […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Settler Terrorists Plan more Mosque Burnings

Israeli Settler Terrorists Plan more Mosque Burnings

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas charged that a fire that damaged a Palestinian mosque in the Israeli-Occupied Palestinian West Bank was set by Israeli terrorists […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Suspect Arrested in Times Square Bomb Plot; Afghan anger at NATO Grows

Suspect Arrested in Times Square Bomb Plot; Afghan anger at NATO Grows

As US authorities arrested Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American recently returned from Peshawar, on suspicion of ties to the Pakistani Taliban and involvement in the Times […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
From Waziristan to New York

From Waziristan to New York

It is a measure of the inter-connected character of our globalized world that the security of New York may be tied to events in distant, […]

Juan Cole

Energy
I want My Country back from Big Oil

I want My Country back from Big Oil

I want my country back. I want back the country of Teddy Roosevelt, who cared about our natural environment. I want back the country of […]

Juan Cole

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Can “Proximity Talks” Avert Boycotts of Apartheid Israel?

Can “Proximity Talks” Avert Boycotts of Apartheid Israel?

President Obama threatened that he would take over the Israel-Palestine peace process himself, along with European allies, and recognize a Palestinian state, if Israeli-Palestinian negotiations […]

Juan Cole

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