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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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Americans Shocked to See Ukrainians treated Like Iraqis even though they are White (Not the Onion)

Americans Shocked to See Ukrainians treated Like Iraqis even though they are White (Not the Onion)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some European and American commentators on Russia’s war against Ukraine have covered themselves in shame by implying that because Ukrainians […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Chekhov's Pistol:  or, Putin's All-Encompassing Security State

Chekhov’s Pistol: or, Putin’s All-Encompassing Security State

Montreal (Special to Informed Comment) – Anton Chekhov famously advised young playwrights that “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the […]

Richard Foltz

Employment
Joe Manchin’s America:  The Resurgence of the Culture-of-Poverty Debate

Joe Manchin’s America: The Resurgence of the Culture-of-Poverty Debate

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As if killing the Child Tax Credit, blocking voting rights, gutting key climate legislation, and refusing living wages wasn’t enough, West […]

Liz Theoharis

Russia
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine:  A New Cold War?

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: A New Cold War?

By Jaro Bilocerkowycz | – In a very real sense, the Russian full-scale invasion places Ukraine at the center of a geopolitical struggle reminiscent of […]

The Conversation

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What can we Learn about Ukraine's Future from Israel's Campaigns in Lebanon?

What can we Learn about Ukraine’s Future from Israel’s Campaigns in Lebanon?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I’ve been thinking about what the Russian invasion and attempted occupation of Ukraine is like in recent history, and one […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Why Putin’s claim to rid Ukraine of Nazis is especially Absurd given its History

Why Putin’s claim to rid Ukraine of Nazis is especially Absurd given its History

By Jeffrey Veidlinger | – Russian President Vladimir Putin justifies his war on Ukraine as a peacekeeping mission, a “denazification” of the country. In his […]

The Conversation

Corporations
Is the Gutting of Newspapers by Private Equity Firms the Nail in the Coffin of Democracy?

Is the Gutting of Newspapers by Private Equity Firms the Nail in the Coffin of Democracy?

Profit maximizing in the newspaper industry is corroding the knowledge base that sustains government by the people. ( Inequality.org ) – Has the unthinkable, the […]

Sam Pizzigati

Climate Crisis
UN:  Pace of Climate Change too fast for many Plant and Animal Species to Adapt

UN: Pace of Climate Change too fast for many Plant and Animal Species to Adapt

Shifting seasons, intensifying wildfires and noise pollution are flagged as increasingly urgent environmental issues in a bleak report by the UN Environment Programme. ( China […]

China Dialogue

Donald Trump
The Republican Party Persecuted US Leftists for tilting to Moscow but Makes Excuses for Putin-Loving Trump

The Republican Party Persecuted US Leftists for tilting to Moscow but Makes Excuses for Putin-Loving Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s fawning admiration of Vladimir Putin is well known, but it has often been brushed off as a quirk. We […]

Juan Cole

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