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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons

On Cusp of Biden visit to Saudi Arabia, GAO questions US Accounting for Civilian Harm caused in Yemen by its Weapons

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden is on the cusp of going off to Saudi Arabia as one part of his upcoming Middle East […]

Juan Cole

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Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Tuebingen (Special to Ann Arbor) – Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks (London: Verso, 2022). Ilham Tohti, a […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Iran’s latest surge in executions heavily targets Baloch minority

Iran’s latest surge in executions heavily targets Baloch minority

By Hamid Yazdan Panah | – Iran is in a midst of yet another surge in executions, reaching a rate of killings in 2021 that […]

Global Voices

Feminism
Returning to Reno:  In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing

Returning to Reno: In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, I told my friend Mimi that, only weeks from now, I was returning to Reno to help UNITE-HERE, the hospitality […]

Rebecca Gordon

Israel/ Palestine
Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine

Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine

Reviw of Daniel Mann, Occupying Habits. Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine. London: I.B. Tauris ( Middle East Monitor) – “Sovereignty is made out of […]

Ramona Wadi

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Cities need to embrace green innovation now to cut heat deaths in the future

Cities need to embrace green innovation now to cut heat deaths in the future

By Alex Boston, Simon Fraser University | – (The Conversation) – In late June 2021, North America’s most severe heat wave in history hit British […]

The Conversation

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The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative

The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative

The Islamic Peace Studies Initiative – Presentation by Juan Cole at the Conference “Fi Subul al-Salām: Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam” at Manchester University, […]

Juan Cole

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After the Jan. 6 Hearings: or How Law Enforcement Ignored White Supremacists While Spying 24/7 on Muslim Americans

After the Jan. 6 Hearings: or How Law Enforcement Ignored White Supremacists While Spying 24/7 on Muslim Americans

This golden oldie column appeared at Tomdispatch.com . I’m bringing it back in the wake of the Jan. 6 Committee’s revelations about Trump’s role in […]

Juan Cole

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Germany’s renewables output climbs to 49% of power demand in first half of 2022

Germany’s renewables output climbs to 49% of power demand in first half of 2022

( Clean Energy Wire ) – Renewables provided nearly half of Germany’s electricity in the first six months of 2022, according to preliminary data released […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

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