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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
Donald Trump

“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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The Climate Emergency Comes for Iran, as Thousands of Angry Farmers Protest in Dry Riverbed at Isfahan

The Climate Emergency Comes for Iran, as Thousands of Angry Farmers Protest in Dry Riverbed at Isfahan

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, Kayhan London reports that thousands of farmers and other activists gathered in the dry riverbed of the historic […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
If We could Mobilize to Fight COVID-19, why can't we Ramp up to Combat the Climate Emergency?

If We could Mobilize to Fight COVID-19, why can’t we Ramp up to Combat the Climate Emergency?

By Jill Richardson ( Otherwords.org ) – The recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was the 26th attempt to get the nations of the world […]

Jill Richardson

censorship
Turkish Online Censorship Ramps up, Targeting Sites Critical of the Government or the President

Turkish Online Censorship Ramps up, Targeting Sites Critical of the Government or the President

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Written in 1953, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a future where books […]

Global Voices

Far Right
Why the Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

Why the Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense

By Ronald Sullivan | – In a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for […]

The Conversation

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To Avoid another War Biden must get US Troops, caught in Israel-Iran Crossfire, out of Syria

To Avoid another War Biden must get US Troops, caught in Israel-Iran Crossfire, out of Syria

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman at the New York Times report that a drone strike on a US base in […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Fiddling at the Death of Democracy:  The Media and Democrats need to confront our Dr. Strangelove Moment

Fiddling at the Death of Democracy: The Media and Democrats need to confront our Dr. Strangelove Moment

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – We learned from Dr. Strangelove that all it takes to blow up the world is one sexually insecure […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Arab World
Authoritarian Quadrangle: How the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Egypt and Israel undermine Democracy in the Middle East

Authoritarian Quadrangle: How the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Egypt and Israel undermine Democracy in the Middle East

By Gilbert Achkar | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – From the middle of the 20th century until the first decade of the 21st, […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Ours won’t be the new American Century or the Chinese Century but that of Catastrophic Climate Change

Ours won’t be the new American Century or the Chinese Century but that of Catastrophic Climate Change

( Tomdispatch.com) – When the leaders of more than 100 nations gathered in Glasgow for the U.N. climate conference last week, there was much discussion […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
Startling Transformation: California has 1 mn. EVs on road, as they become state's No. 1 Export

Startling Transformation: California has 1 mn. EVs on road, as they become state’s No. 1 Export

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On, Monday, Juliet Eilperin, the environment editor at the Washington Post hosted a live event that included the Energy Commissioner […]

Juan Cole

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