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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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Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World:  A Himalayan Journey Toward Hope

Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World: A Himalayan Journey Toward Hope

By William deBuys | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Thirteen thousand feet high on the far side of the Himalaya mountains, we have entered the past […]

Tomdispatch

Climate Crisis
Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education

Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education

By Nick Engelfried | – Last month, crowds of young people and supporters gathered in 1,500 locations around the world for one of the largest […]

Waging Nonviolence

African-Americans
"A Certain Hope Died:" How the White nationalist Republican Party used up Colin Powell, then Spit Him Out

“A Certain Hope Died:” How the White nationalist Republican Party used up Colin Powell, then Spit Him Out

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Powell died on Monday, not long after his rival inside the Bush administration, Donald Rumsfeld. Both of them tore […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Oakland, CA. (Special to Informed Comment) – Maybe Republicans don’t know the historical significance of the swastika. Many don’t know the history of WWII. Thanks […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Crime
Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan | – The Insurrection The Effort to Overturn the Election ( ProPublica) – As much as $3 million may […]

ProPublica

Afghanistan
How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism

How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism

By Luis Edel Abreu Veranes | – From the turbulent 1970s ( Middle East Monitor) – With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan […]

Middle East Monitor

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Will Israel's Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Will Israel’s Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jack Khoury and Noa Shpigel report at Haaretz that the Israeli government is advancing a marijuana bill that may gain […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held American […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I’d saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper […]

Rebecca Gordon

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