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Islanders of Tuvalu Prepare first Mass Migration because of Sea Level Rise, as ICJ grants them Right to Sue
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Islanders of Tuvalu Prepare first Mass Migration because of Sea Level Rise, as ICJ grants them Right to Sue

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The entire nation of Tuvalu, 11,000 people, is making preparations to relocate, reports Sophie Mak at Nikkei Asia . The […]

Gaza is Starving – how Israel’s Allies can go beyond Words and take meaningful Action

Gaza is Starving – how Israel’s Allies can go beyond Words and take meaningful Action

07/26/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting U of California’s Attempt to Forbid Boycotts

Protesting U of California’s Attempt to Forbid Boycotts

07/26/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Why Economic Sanctions on Iran will Fail

Why Economic Sanctions on Iran will Fail

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said at Columbia U. that a military strike on Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities would be […]

Juan Cole

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Gates Worries about Iranian Nuclear Research, while Khamenei blasts US for Hiroshima

Gates Worries about Iranian Nuclear Research, while Khamenei blasts US for Hiroshima

David Sanger of the New York Times gets the scoop– that US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sent the White House a memo last January […]

Juan Cole

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Khamenei:  US ‘only’ ‘nuclear criminal’ for Hiroshima

Khamenei: US ‘only’ ‘nuclear criminal’ for Hiroshima

The USG Open Source Center translates the speech on Saturday of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to the attendees of a nuclear security conference in Tehran. […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Differences between Mir Hosain Mousavi and Lady Gaga

Top Ten Differences between Mir Hosain Mousavi and Lady Gaga

Satire alert. Time magazine’s publicists inform me that there is a duke-out going on between Lady Gaga fans and those of Iranian Green Movement leader […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan Attacks Leave 13 Dead

Afghanistan Attacks Leave 13 Dead

Attacks in Afghanistan left 13 dead and many more wounded on Thursday. A suicide car bombing near an Afghanistan National Army base in Qandahar left […]

Juan Cole

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Florida Times-Union on Engaging the Muslim World

Florida Times-Union on Engaging the Muslim World

The Florida Times-Union has an editorial today on the US and the Muslim world (and American Muslims) that draws on my most recent book, Engaging […]

Juan Cole

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Wright: Assassinations Strengthen Religious Terrorist Groups

Wright: Assassinations Strengthen Religious Terrorist Groups

Robert Wright argues that not only is assassination (including by drone) legally and ethically troubling, but there is reason to think that it is counterproductive […]

Juan Cole

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Obama hints that Two-State Solution may be Impossible

Obama hints that Two-State Solution may be Impossible

President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that despite the expenditure of substantial political capital by his administration it may be that no progress will be made […]

Juan Cole

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Englehardt On Bombing People from the Air

Englehardt On Bombing People from the Air

Tom Engelhardt on Americans fighting their wars ‘from on high.’ Alas, it isn’t American, it is just industrialized warfare. Pakistan is bombing its own people, […]

Juan Cole

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