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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing:  “All the Vice President’s Men”
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On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men”

Juan Cole

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics

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Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals to Help New Yorkers Are Surprisingly Affordable

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The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS are not the Answer

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Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

  by Ronny P Sasmita ( Middle East Monitor ) – The latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have once again exposed the frailty of what […]

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Climate Crisis
Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

By Christoph Nedopil, Griffith University (The Conversation) – The price of partnership with the United States has changed. Washington is now using assurances of defence […]

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The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East

The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East

Quincy, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Today, and particularly in the Middle East, concepts like national interest, class, and geopolitics are fading compared […]

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Omar Khayyam
“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

Stanza 21 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues with the theme of the shortness of life […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

By Brett Wilkins | – ( Commondreams.org ) – Gaza officials said that at least 51 Palestinians, including numerous children, were killed across the strip […]

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Anti-Vaccination
A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill

A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill

By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of […]

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Donald Trump
Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on “No Kings” Day

Ypsilanti, named for a Greek Freedom Fighter against Tyranny, Rallies against Trump on “No Kings” Day

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the 1820s Greece waged a successful war of independence against an authoritarian king, the Ottoman Emperor Mahmoud II. The […]

Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before

Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before

Trump is trying to disappear the part of the Constitution that stops the government from searching your house — or seizing you — without a […]

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Displaced and Refugees
As Gaza rebuilds, what Lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

As Gaza rebuilds, what Lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

By Gwyn McClelland, University of New England (The Conversation) – At first, there might not seem to be any immediate similarities between a devastated Nagasaki […]

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