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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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At Least 10 Dead In Deadly Blasts In

At Least 10 Dead In Deadly Blasts In

At least 10 Dead in Deadly blasts in Mosul, Telafar Wire services report that a suicide bomber killed five Iraqis in Mosul, and another killed […]

Juan Cole

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Demonstration In Samarra Ash Sharq Al

Demonstration In Samarra Ash Sharq Al

Demonstration in Samarra Ash-Sharq al-Awsat/ AFP: Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated Tuesday in Samarra, demanding the withdrawal of American troops from their city. Clan elders and […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq News Roundup Ash Sharq Al Awsat

Iraq News Roundup Ash Sharq Al Awsat

Iraq News Roundup Ash-Sharq al-Awsat does a report on Fallujah in which it alleges that of the residents who have returned after the US assault, […]

Juan Cole

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Competent Intelligence Urged By

Competent Intelligence Urged By

Competent Intelligence Urged by Rumsfeld Ironies of Iraq today: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is afraid that the new Shiite religious government in Iraq will […]

Juan Cole

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Sharon Defies Bush Ap Headline Gets It

Sharon Defies Bush Ap Headline Gets It

Sharon Defies Bush The AP headline gets it right: Sharon dismisses Bush Warning on Settlement Expansion. I would have called it “large-scale land theft” rather […]

Juan Cole

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What Muslims Think Is Really Happening

What Muslims Think Is Really Happening

What the Muslims think is Really Happening in Jerusalem The far-right Israeli extremists who demonstrated in Jerusalem were not just protesting the plan to remove […]

Juan Cole

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Life Imprisonment For Saddam Are

Life Imprisonment For Saddam Are

Life Imprisonment for Saddam? Are the guerrillas fighting in Iraq demanding that Saddam not be executed as one of their conditions for coming in from […]

Juan Cole

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Us Millions In Iraq Wasted I Saw Lewis

Us Millions In Iraq Wasted I Saw Lewis

US Millions in Iraq Wasted I saw Lewis Black, the comedian, in Detroit last month. Lewis does angry humor. But at one point he went […]

Juan Cole

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Allawi Resigns Joins New Government

Allawi Resigns Joins New Government

Allawi resigns, Joins New Government Iyad Allawi has consented to join the new Iraqi government. He is demanding 4 of 31 cabinet posts for his […]

Juan Cole

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