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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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Central Asia
Eurasia’s Ring of Fire:  The Epic Struggle over the Epicenter of U.S. Global Power

Eurasia’s Ring of Fire: The Epic Struggle over the Epicenter of U.S. Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Throughout 2021, Americans were absorbed in arguments over mask mandates, school closings, and the meaning of the January 6th attack on […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Tonga's Volcanic Tsunami floods Capital, foreshadowing effects of Glacier Melt from our CO2

Tonga’s Volcanic Tsunami floods Capital, foreshadowing effects of Glacier Melt from our CO2

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A massive eruption in an undersea volcano, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai, 40 miles north of the South Pacific island of […]

Juan Cole

Germany
Renewables supplied 46% of net public power in Germany in 2021, 40.9% of Gross

Renewables supplied 46% of net public power in Germany in 2021, 40.9% of Gross

NB: “In 2020, renewable energy sources (including wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy) generated . . . about 21% of all the electricity generated […]

Clean Energy Wire

al-Qaeda
Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline

Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline

By Walden Bello | – The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take stock of the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Afghanistan
After Afghanistan, US military presence abroad faces domestic and foreign opposition in 2022

After Afghanistan, US military presence abroad faces domestic and foreign opposition in 2022

By Michael A. Allen, Carla Martinez Machain, and Michael E. Flynn | – In August 2021, the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan after fighting a […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Raven releases the Sun: First Native American Interior Secretary moves to put in 100 GW Solar on Federal Land

Raven releases the Sun: First Native American Interior Secretary moves to put in 100 GW Solar on Federal Land

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As part of a Biden Administration push to put in 27 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy on federal land by […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Breaking the Silence: Oppression of Palestinians reminds American Student in the West Bank of Black Lives Matter

Breaking the Silence: Oppression of Palestinians reminds American Student in the West Bank of Black Lives Matter

( Traveling Twins ) – On Friday, December 24, I joined a Breaking the Silence tour of the South Hebron Hills- an area in the […]

Abigail Leibowitz

Bashar al-Assad
Syrian survivors of Torture rejoice over German Court indicting Regime Officer of Crimes Against Humanity

Syrian survivors of Torture rejoice over German Court indicting Regime Officer of Crimes Against Humanity

By Okba Mohammed | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Survivors of torture in Syrian prisons celebrated a verdict made at 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 13 […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
Millions are on the Run from Global Heating - International Law must recognize Climate Refugees

Millions are on the Run from Global Heating – International Law must recognize Climate Refugees

By Daniel L. Huizenga | – When hurricanes Eta and Iota barrelled into Central America in November 2020, they flooded towns and cities, caused catastrophic […]

The Conversation

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