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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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Afghanistan
Post-Afghanistan, Nation (Un)Building Comes Home

Post-Afghanistan, Nation (Un)Building Comes Home

( Tomdispatch.com) – They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” Indeed, that cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it […]

Tom Engelhardt

African-Americans
Southern White Male GOP Voter Suppression, anti-Abortion Laws are ways of reviving Jim Crow and expanding it to White Women

Southern White Male GOP Voter Suppression, anti-Abortion Laws are ways of reviving Jim Crow and expanding it to White Women

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – African-Americans have complained about the tendency of commentators to compare political suppression and regressive policies of white Republicans to slavery. […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: the warlords who will decide whether civil war is likely

Afghanistan: the warlords who will decide whether civil war is likely

By Scott Lucas | – Unsurprisingly, the Taliban’s rapid takeover of power across Afghanistan has prompted headlines about a renewed “civil war”. This is misleading, […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Taliban Imposes New Dress Code, Segregation Of Women At Afghan Universities

Taliban Imposes New Dress Code, Segregation Of Women At Afghan Universities

By Frud Bezhan | – ( RFE/RL/Radio Azadi) – KABUL — The Taliban has imposed a new dress code and gender segregation for women at […]

Frud Bezhan

Climate Crisis
Nature-based solutions: the ‘no-regret’ routes to carbon neutrality

Nature-based solutions: the ‘no-regret’ routes to carbon neutrality

By Zeng Nan, Jin Tong, and Zhang Xiaoquan | – ( China Dialogue) – The concept of nature-based solutions took root in China in 2019. […]

China Dialogue

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Health Dangers of Climate Emergency that are far more Pressing than Covid Pandemic (-  230 Top Medical Journals)

Top 5 Health Dangers of Climate Emergency that are far more Pressing than Covid Pandemic (- 230 Top Medical Journals)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 230 medical journals carried an editorial on Sunday, “Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Tax the ‘Trillion-Dollar Seven’

Tax the ‘Trillion-Dollar Seven’

By Bob Lord | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Democrats want to spend $3.5 trillion on jobs and infrastructure. A third of that could be […]

OtherWords

Afghanistan
Taliban seek China as Silk Road reconstruction Partner

Taliban seek China as Silk Road reconstruction Partner

Ali Hussein Bakir | – ( Middle East Monitor) – In an interview conducted recently with an Italian newspaper, the Taliban movement spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid, […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
Hurricane Ida shows the increasing impact of climate crisis since Katrina

Hurricane Ida shows the increasing impact of climate crisis since Katrina

By Jack L. Rozdilsky | – Sixteen years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Hurricane Ida struck at Port Fourchon, La., on Aug. […]

The Conversation

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