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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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China
Biden is a Transformative President Domestically, but from China to Iran he embraces the Same old Washington Militarism

Biden is a Transformative President Domestically, but from China to Iran he embraces the Same old Washington Militarism

America is back–to the same old, same old. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) -On the domestic front, Joe Biden is flirting with transformational policies […]

John Feffer

African-Americans
What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote

What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote

By Cornell William Clayton and Michael Ritter | – Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will […]

The Conversation

Bush
Donald Rumsfeld, Torturer, Serial Liar, Butcher of Baghdad, dies at 88

Donald Rumsfeld, Torturer, Serial Liar, Butcher of Baghdad, dies at 88

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s death at 88 is an occasion for me to recall some of my own […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Bennett's political theatre: The decisive Israeli-Palestinian fight ahead

Bennett’s political theatre: The decisive Israeli-Palestinian fight ahead

( Middle East Monitor ) – Many Palestinians believe that the 10-21 May military confrontation between Israel and the Gaza Resistance, along with the simultaneous […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
How the Media manages to Report the Northwest Heat Dome without Mentioning the Carbon Dioxide Emissions that Drove it

How the Media manages to Report the Northwest Heat Dome without Mentioning the Carbon Dioxide Emissions that Drove it

By Kamyar Razavi | – ( The Conversation) – New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
An All-American Horror Story:  How we Sacrificed our Health on the Altar of useless Nuclear Arsenals

An All-American Horror Story: How we Sacrificed our Health on the Altar of useless Nuclear Arsenals

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Yes, once upon a time I regularly absorbed science fiction and imagined futures of wonder, but mainly of horror. What else […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Top 6 Things Trump should be Indicted for aside from Cheating on Taxes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) The Trump organization was indicted by a New York grand jury on Wednesday and the indictment is unsealed today, according to […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The World's Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn't Changed

The World’s Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn’t Changed

( Middle East Monitor ) – If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the […]

Asa Winstanley

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing

Palestinians are Mobilized in the face of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing

(Al-Shabaka ) – The ongoing Palestinian uprising against the Israeli settler-colonial regime in colonized Palestine did not begin in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighborhood of […]

Yara Hawari

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