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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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Corruption
Could Dominion and Smartmatic take down Fox News for Libel and Reckless Disregard for the Truth?

Could Dominion and Smartmatic take down Fox News for Libel and Reckless Disregard for the Truth?

By Nancy Costello | – Free speech advocates have long believed that suing a news organization threatens free speech. Democracy needs a press to be […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Scotland is First Industrialized country to generate 97.4% of Electricity From Wind and Solar

Scotland is First Industrialized country to generate 97.4% of Electricity From Wind and Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In 2011, Scotland’s government, urged on by visionaries like Richard Dixon, set itself the ambitious goal to get 100% of […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Ten years after the Arab Spring, Libya has another chance for peace

Ten years after the Arab Spring, Libya has another chance for peace

By Brian McQuinn | – Ten years ago, the United Nation’s no-fly zone over Libya marked the beginning of the Libyan revolution and the West’s […]

The Conversation

Iran
Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately

Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately

By Manon Dark | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The current controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is one of Trump’s lingering foreign policy […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis
Germany sees record greenhouse gas emission fall due to pandemic, renewables

Germany sees record greenhouse gas emission fall due to pandemic, renewables

By Kerstine Appunn and Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly nine percent in 2020 – the […]

Clean Energy Wire

Cold War
Why the Suez Canal, now blocked, is so Important to the Global Economy and World History

Why the Suez Canal, now blocked, is so Important to the Global Economy and World History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The super-super tanker Ever Given is stuck kitty-corner in the Suez Canal, having apparently run up on a sand bar. […]

Juan Cole

Turkey
Turkey's Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren't going Quietly

Turkey’s Erdogan abruptly pulled out of Convention on Violence against Women; Women aren’t going Quietly

By Devran Gule and Leïla Choukroune | – In a single-paragraph statement issued at around 2am on March 20, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

How the Big Oil – Dictator Complex Threatens our Planet

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – This March, the leading global consulting firm IHS Markit held its CERAWeek conference, billed as the ​“world’s premier energy […]

Basav Sen

Afghanistan
Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

Two Decades on, can Biden End the War on Terror?

( Tomidispatch.com ) – In the first two months of Joe Biden’s presidency, you could feel the country holding its breath. Sheltered in place, hidden […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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