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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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Corruption
Empty Classified Document Folders at Trump's Office at Mar-a-Lago: Where did the Docs Go?

Empty Classified Document Folders at Trump’s Office at Mar-a-Lago: Where did the Docs Go?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday ordered the release of the inventory of US government documents seized by the […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Does Mideast Panopticon -- Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities -- foretell our Dystopian Future?

Does Mideast Panopticon — Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities — foretell our Dystopian Future?

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
How Timber Cities could provide Climate Saving Solution for growing urban Populations

How Timber Cities could provide Climate Saving Solution for growing urban Populations

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – A large-scale transition to using wood for building construction in “timber cities” could avoid […]

Clean Energy Wire

Antisemitism
Unknown Holocaust photos – found in Attics and Archives – are helping Researchers recover lost Stories and providing a Tool against Denial

Unknown Holocaust photos – found in Attics and Archives – are helping Researchers recover lost Stories and providing a Tool against Denial

By Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden came out swinging in Philadelphia in a rare Thursday evening prime time address, denouncing the “MAGA Republican […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Peace Literacy: Every Student Needs It

Peace Literacy: Every Student Needs It

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Philadelphia is “awash in guns”: More people were shot there in 2022, hundreds fatally, than in larger cities […]

H. Patricia Hynes

censorship
China: New UN Report Urges Accountability for Uyghurs, Alleges Crimes Against Humanity

China: New UN Report Urges Accountability for Uyghurs, Alleges Crimes Against Humanity

Human Rights Watch – (Geneva) – A groundbreaking United Nations report published on August 31, 2022, says the Chinese government has committed abuses that may […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Should Palestine be accepted as a Member State at the UN? Conundrums of the 2-State Compromise

Should Palestine be accepted as a Member State at the UN? Conundrums of the 2-State Compromise

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Palestinian Authority is once again seeking full membership of the UN, and the US has already expressed its […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
CO2 highest in a Million Years, Seas Rising, and a new “Ocean” arises in Flood-Hit Pakistan

CO2 highest in a Million Years, Seas Rising, and a new “Ocean” arises in Flood-Hit Pakistan

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – CNN reports that satellite photos show that the overflowing Indus has created a new body of water in southern Pakistan […]

Juan Cole

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