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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
Donald Trump

“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza

Dan Steinbock

When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony Blair is […]

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

“In this batter’d Caravanserai:” FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:16

09/22/2025 By Juan Cole

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

As Gaza bleeds, Israel plans its next move: Annexing the Palestinian West Bank

09/22/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   After signing a military decree on 18 May, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

By Rita Issa, University of East Anglia | – It was getting hotter. Frank May got off his mat and padded over to look out […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Smoking Gun: Trump's Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Smoking Gun: Trump’s Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Trump murdered several people by drone at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020, including Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani, […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Turkey: what to expect from Erdoğan, his ultranationalist Alliance and their ‘Family Values’ Pledges

Turkey: what to expect from Erdoğan, his ultranationalist Alliance and their ‘Family Values’ Pledges

Balki Begumhan Bayhan, Coventry University | – (The Conversation) – After a bitter and hard-fought campaign that went to a second run-off vote, Recep Tayyip […]

The Conversation

Environment
Environmental Hazard: How Russia's War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

Environmental Hazard: How Russia’s War in Ukraine Threatens the Planet

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has resulted in the deaths so far of more than 8,700 Ukrainian civilians, […]

John Feffer

US Foreign Policy
The Wars we don’t (Care to) See: Aggression Made Easy

The Wars we don’t (Care to) See: Aggression Made Easy

By David Barsamian and Norman Solomon ( Tomdispatch.com ) – [The following is excerpted and adapted from David Barsamian’s recent interview with Norman Solomon at […]

Tomdispatch

Batteries
Tipping Point? Global Investments in Low-Carbon Energy Outstrip Fossil Fuel Commitments by 1.7 to 1 for First Time in World History

Tipping Point? Global Investments in Low-Carbon Energy Outstrip Fossil Fuel Commitments by 1.7 to 1 for First Time in World History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Globally, investors will sink $1.7 trillion into low-carbon energy this year — for the first time more than will be […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Biden Administration to Combat Antisemitism, but won't Shield Israel from Criticism

Biden Administration to Combat Antisemitism, but won’t Shield Israel from Criticism

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks   ( Middle East Monitor) – Supporters of Israel advocating for the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism have […]

Middle East Monitor

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