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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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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

By Diannie Chavez and Brenda Rivas | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s refusal to back the Biden administration’s […]

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Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

By Taha Yasseri and Mary Sanford | – Ten years ago, when we ranked the most controversial articles on Wikipedia, George W. Bush was at […]

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Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Quds gives the details of an attack this week by Israeli squatter-settlers on native Palestinians of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
UN:  Removal of Indigenous Population - 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

UN: Removal of Indigenous Population – 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

( Middle East Monitor) – Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise […]

Ramona Wadi

Afghanistan
Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

( Waging Noviolence ) – This week, Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook talk to Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative […]

Waging Nonviolence

Afghanistan
“A Horrible Mistake”:  Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

“A Horrible Mistake”: Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. The Washington Post […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Asian-Americans
Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican "Replacement Theory"

Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican “Replacement Theory”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Primack and Russell Contreras at Axios survey the ways in which the anti-Semitic, white supremacist “replacement theory” is being […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib - and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib – and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

( Middle East Monitor) – [It is rare] for Israeli apartheid to be raised as a topic of discussion in the US Congress. In fact, […]

Asa Winstanley

Afghanistan
For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

By Heather Barr | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – There is no better symbol for the disappearance of women’s rights in Afghanistan […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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