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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
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“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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Powerful Explosion In Baghdad Nyt

Powerful Explosion In Baghdad Nyt

Powerful Explosion in Baghdad The NYT reports, “The violence continued in Iraq as a bomb exploded by a highway here in the capital on Friday […]

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Bremer Decries Iranian Actions In Iraq

Bremer Decries Iranian Actions In Iraq

Bremer Decries Iranian Actions in Iraq US civil administrator Paul Bremer gave an interview with the Daily Telegraph in which he decried what he called […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Must Be Kept Together As Single

Iraq Must Be Kept Together As Single

Iraq must be Kept together as a Single State The splitting up of Iraq into three countries would be unacceptable to all the neighbors, including […]

Juan Cole

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Diyala Bridge Cost Overruns More Reader

Diyala Bridge Cost Overruns More Reader

Diyala Bridge Cost Overruns More reader reactions to the Riverbend posting about US over-spending on construction projects in Iraq: From Nabil al-Tikriti: “Karen Magoon’s websearch […]

Juan Cole

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Three Us Soldiers Dead Perhaps Dozen

Three Us Soldiers Dead Perhaps Dozen

Three US Soldiers Dead, perhaps a dozen Wounded Guerrillas throughout northern Iraq subjected American troops to a large number of deadly attacks on Thursday, killing […]

Juan Cole

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Police Demonstrate In Basra Police

Police Demonstrate In Basra Police

Police demonstrate in Basra The police chief of Basra has been removed from office by the British. About two hundred policemen loyal to him staged […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdisharab Violence In Kirkuk Dozens

Kurdisharab Violence In Kirkuk Dozens

Kurdish/Arab Violence in Kirkuk Dozens of armed Kurdish men in Kirkuk attacked Arab tribesmen near the city on Thursday afternoon, according to al-Hayat. The Kurds […]

Juan Cole

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Uncompetitive Halliburton Contracts

Uncompetitive Halliburton Contracts

Uncompetitive Halliburton Contracts worth Billions in Iraq The contracts given last February by the US military to Halliburton for putting out petroleum fires and getting […]

Juan Cole

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Ambassador Joe Wilson On Iraq Interview

Ambassador Joe Wilson On Iraq Interview

Ambassador Joe Wilson on Iraq – Interview by Josh Marshall The full story of Ambassador Joe Wilson’s investigation of (fraudulent) claims that Iraq had signed […]

Juan Cole

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