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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?
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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?

Dan Steinbock

New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Recently, international media has highlighted the mass famine in Gaza. Yet, there have been effectively three waves […]

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

09/02/2025 By Juan Cole

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

09/02/2025 By Global Voices

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Mcgreevy Facing West From Arab Country

Mcgreevy Facing West From Arab Country

McGreevy: Facing West from Arab Country Patrick McGreevy Writes from Beirut: ‘8 August 2006 Facing West from Arab Country US leaders often assert that their […]

Juan Cole

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Mashhadani On Americastan In Iraq

Mashhadani On Americastan In Iraq

Mashhadani on Americastan in Iraq Gilbert Achcar kindly translates a recent article from al-Hayat, interviewing the Speaker of the House of the Iraqi Parliament. I […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Air Raids Kill 12 Hizbullah

Israeli Air Raids Kill 12 Hizbullah

Israeli Air Raids Kill 12 Hizbullah Rockets kill 15 If we start in the north and work south, here is what the Israel-Lebanon War looked […]

Juan Cole

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Save Lebanese Civilians Faleh

Save Lebanese Civilians Faleh

Save Lebanese Civilians Faleh A. Jabar, an Iraqi intellectual resident in Beirut who has been a leading force in promoting a democratic intellectual culture in […]

Juan Cole

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Battle For Baghdad Us Troops Clashed

Battle For Baghdad Us Troops Clashed

Battle for Baghdad US troops clashed with the Mahdi Army of clerical nationalist Muqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City Monday morning. A car bombing of a […]

Juan Cole

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Wiping Off Face Of Map

Wiping Off Face Of Map

Wiping off the Face of the Map (Reprint) This bothered enough of the right people that I thought I’d reprint from Saturday. Note for the […]

Juan Cole

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One Ring To Rule Them Wholesale

One Ring To Rule Them Wholesale

One Ring to Rule Them The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense. Why bomb […]

Juan Cole

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Lebanon War Grinds On Despite Un

Lebanon War Grinds On Despite Un

Lebanon War Grinds on Despite UN Diplomacy On Sunday morning, “Six civilians were killed when an air-to-ground missile hit a house in the village of […]

Juan Cole

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Bombings In Baqubah Ambush Near Kirkuk

Bombings In Baqubah Ambush Near Kirkuk

Bombings in Baqubah, Ambush Near Kirkuk Reuters details guerrilla violence on Saturday (and late Friday. An army checkpoint sprayed with fire, killing 5 soldiers, near […]

Juan Cole

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