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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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Israel/ Palestine
Family Separation Law: Israel’s demographic war on the Palestinians intensifies

Family Separation Law: Israel’s demographic war on the Palestinians intensifies

( Middle East Monitor ) – When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly referred to as the Family Reunification Law, news […]

Ramzy Baroud

Iran
America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq - and Iran?

America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?

( Code Pink) – At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that was until recently the […]

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

China
On the Brink in 2026:  U.S.-China Near-War Status Report

On the Brink in 2026: U.S.-China Near-War Status Report

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s the summer of 2026, five years after the Biden administration identified the People’s Republic of China as the principal threat […]

Michael T. Klare

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Palestinians appeal to the UN Security Council over further Israeli Land Theft, Squatter Settlement at Palestinian Beita

Palestinians appeal to the UN Security Council over further Israeli Land Theft, Squatter Settlement at Palestinian Beita

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has agreed with Israeli squatter organizations […]

Juan Cole

Debt
Why we need a Debt Jubilee for Renters as the Covid eviction Moratorium expires

Why we need a Debt Jubilee for Renters as the Covid eviction Moratorium expires

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is going to happen when the eviction protections now scheduled to expire at the end of […]

John Buell

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: two decades of Nato help leaves a failed and fractured state on the brink of civil war

Afghanistan: two decades of Nato help leaves a failed and fractured state on the brink of civil war

By Natasha Lindstaedt | – ( The Conversation )- Afghanistan is falling apart. With US and Nato troops leaving the country earlier than planned, experts […]

The Conversation

Human Rights
Saudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked

Saudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons, Human Rights Watch […]

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump
As CPAC Tinfoil Hat Crowd Decries Vaccines, Delta Variant 'Velociraptor' Menaces US Red States with India-Style Wave

As CPAC Tinfoil Hat Crowd Decries Vaccines, Delta Variant ‘Velociraptor’ Menaces US Red States with India-Style Wave

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-II is to the original vanilla COVID-19 strain as velociraptors were to gentle plant-eating sauropods. And […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Waiting for US withdrawal, is Russia eyeing Iraq’s oil?

Waiting for US withdrawal, is Russia eyeing Iraq’s oil?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – When the George W. Bush administration launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003, many believed the campaign’s main goal […]

Nikola Mikovic

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