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How many people has ICE maimed, killed or Disappeared in Minnesota?
Asian-Americans

How many people has ICE maimed, killed or Disappeared in Minnesota?

Janelle Carlson

Many of those detained are left without their medication which can lead to life-threatening complications

What will a rebuilt Gaza look like? The competing visions for the Strip’s future

What will a rebuilt Gaza look like? The competing visions for the Strip’s future

02/05/2026 By The Conversation

The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

02/05/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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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

al-Qaeda
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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US Attitudes, Discourse on Israel Shifting to Realism

US Attitudes, Discourse on Israel Shifting to Realism

A dispassionate examination of Israeli policy and its negative impact on the US at the Wilson Center by 5 former ambassadors is summarized at the […]

Juan Cole

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Turkey, Brazil Come out against new Iran sanctions at Security Summit

Turkey, Brazil Come out against new Iran sanctions at Security Summit

Presidnt Obama’s nuclear security summit scored an early victory on Monday, since Obama was able to announce that Ukraine would give up its stock of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis Could Expel Thousands of Palestinians from Palestine

Israelis Could Expel Thousands of Palestinians from Palestine

New Israeli regulations allow authorities potentially to imprison or expel from the West Bank tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Israeli right has long favored […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
170 Killed in Afghanistan as Gates, Cheney, Palin Wrangle over Karzai

170 Killed in Afghanistan as Gates, Cheney, Palin Wrangle over Karzai

170 people were killed in Afghanistan during the past week in political violence, according to an interior ministry spokesman. Radio Azadi reports in Persian that […]

Juan Cole

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