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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis
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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis

Juan Cole

The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers

Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

02/26/2026 By The Conversation

Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

02/26/2026 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

From Waltz to Hormuz: Why a Gulf Escalation would backfire Systemically

The international system today is not only defined by polarity but by dense interdependence. Energy chokepoints generate global conflict

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S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam

S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam

If fossil fuels were competitive, Trump wouldn’t have to try so hard to stall permitting for new wind and solar projects

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Who Fears the Truth?  The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

Who Fears the Truth? The Deep Fake Campaign to Silence Francesca Albanese on the Gaza Genocide

The edited clip of that speech ricocheted across social media, falsely suggesting

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The Disappearance of Palestine

The Disappearance of Palestine

International support for a Palestinian state has never been stronger, but its territory is disappearing like sand in an hourglass

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Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face”

Israel Still Throttling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus is Eating Her Face”

Children continue to be affected by airstrikes and the disruption of essential services, with 37 children reported killed since Jan. 1

Juan Cole

BDS
How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

Under pressure from local divestment campaigns, US states and municipalities that underwrote the genocide in Gaza are selling off Israeli bonds.

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

Iran has more Options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu Assume

As Israel attempts to push the US into war with Iran, it’s worth considering how Tehran could retaliate

Paul Rogers

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UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

Francesca Albanese stands head and shoulders with the great Nobel-Prize women.  Women won for her dedication to international peace

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Iran
“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

Like cascading waters, or a desert squall another day of my life has fled.

Juan Cole

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