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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America
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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America

Juan Cole

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

01/03/2026 By The Conversation

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

01/03/2026 By Middle East Monitor

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Continue to Pile Up

The Israeli army continued demolishing buildings east of the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighborhoods, as well as refugee camps in central Gaza

International Middle East Media Center

Iraq
Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

The leaders of five significant armed groups claimed that they had adopted the idea of “the state’s monopoly on the use of force

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals

Trump’s Strike on Nigeria: Joint with Muslim President, Unconstitutional, Useless Posturing for Evangelicals

Ironically, the strike was fully supported by the Muslim president of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Gaza Genocide was not a One-Off: The Blueprint is There to be Repeated

The Gaza Genocide was not a One-Off: The Blueprint is There to be Repeated

During this two-year campaign of extermination, more than 20,000 Palestinian children were murdered

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
The Real Threat: U.S. Spending to Combat Climate Change has been Swallowed by the Pentagon

The Real Threat: U.S. Spending to Combat Climate Change has been Swallowed by the Pentagon

The Paris Treaty envisioned the economic and social transformations needed to keep the planet from overheating to unlivable levels

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Algeria
Was Colonialism a Crime?  Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule

Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule

Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth

Juan Cole

Antarctica
West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

Much of the discussion about the melting of massive ice sheets during a time of climate change addresses its effects on people

The Conversation

Iraq
From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

The region has always developed – not by oil, war or empire, but by their collateral effects of connecting peoples, ideas and economies

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Donald Trump
Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names

Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names

The renaming of the Performing Arts Center followed a renaming that created the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace

Mitchell Zimmerman

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