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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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A Litany of Failure: Nearly 20 Years Later, the US is Still Bombing Iraq, and Iraq is Still Condemning Israeli Occupation of Palestine

A Litany of Failure: Nearly 20 Years Later, the US is Still Bombing Iraq, and Iraq is Still Condemning Israeli Occupation of Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When the architects of the illegal 2003 Bush Administration war on Iraq imagined the country nearly twenty years later, they […]

Juan Cole

European Union
The Int'l Community at Berlin II wants Oil and a Stop to Emigration from Libya; What Libya needs is Strong Institutions and Peace

The Int’l Community at Berlin II wants Oil and a Stop to Emigration from Libya; What Libya needs is Strong Institutions and Peace

Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) – A lazy international press corps is missing the big story on Libya. English language news coverage of […]

John Hickman

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians need their own State and the 'Palestinian Authority' isn't it:  The PA is actually Israel's auxiliary occupation force

Palestinians need their own State and the ‘Palestinian Authority’ isn’t it: The PA is actually Israel’s auxiliary occupation force

( Middle East Monitor ) – Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it […]

Asa Winstanley

Joe Biden
Cold War Nostalgia is not a Policy:  Joe Biden needs a New, less Militaristic Vision for America

Cold War Nostalgia is not a Policy: Joe Biden needs a New, less Militaristic Vision for America

“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Far Right
Gaslighting the Pentagon: Tucker Carlson, who called Iraqis 'Monkeys,' Poses as anti-Racist in defending White Supremacy from "Pig" Gen. Milley

Gaslighting the Pentagon: Tucker Carlson, who called Iraqis ‘Monkeys,’ Poses as anti-Racist in defending White Supremacy from “Pig” Gen. Milley

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Fox white nationalist (there, I’ve been redundant and repeated myself) Tucker Carlson once called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys,” managing to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
German Transport Ministry advised that Electric Cars must Dominate new Sales by 2025, eyeing 1 Mn. EVs on Road this Year

German Transport Ministry advised that Electric Cars must Dominate new Sales by 2025, eyeing 1 Mn. EVs on Road this Year

By Edgar Meza | – Handelsblatt ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Electric cars will need to account for most new registrations in Germany in […]

Clean Energy Wire

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Sounds Like Fascism: Florida's DeSantis to Collect Political Views of Professors to defund "Hotbeds of stale Ideology"

Sounds Like Fascism: Florida’s DeSantis to Collect Political Views of Professors to defund “Hotbeds of stale Ideology”

By Julia Conley, staff writer | – ( Commondreams.org) – Democratic lawmakers and educators nationwide are expressing alarm over legislation signed this week by Florida […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
Is there a climate link to Miami’s condo catastrophe?

Is there a climate link to Miami’s condo catastrophe?

By Laureen Fagan | – ( Sustainability Times) – The tragic collapse of an oceanfront condominium near Miami has captured attention across the world, and […]

Sustainability Times

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73 Dems in Congress demand Biden Brand Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestine "Illegal," Dump Trump's "Deal of the Century"

73 Dems in Congress demand Biden Brand Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestine “Illegal,” Dump Trump’s “Deal of the Century”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 73 Democratic Congressional representatives wrote a letter to President Biden on Friday urging him formally to withdraw from Trump’s so-called […]

Juan Cole

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