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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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President Biden wants More Vaccine Doses Sooner:  Why it is Physically Impossible before Summer

President Biden wants More Vaccine Doses Sooner: Why it is Physically Impossible before Summer

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Ryan Gabrielson | – ( ProPublica ) – President Joe Biden has ordered enough vaccines to immunize every American against COVID-19, […]

ProPublica

Epidemics
Israeli Ministry of Health Study finds Pfizer Vaccine stops 89.4% of Virus transmission, Raising Hopes of Return to Normalcy: Der Spiegel

Israeli Ministry of Health Study finds Pfizer Vaccine stops 89.4% of Virus transmission, Raising Hopes of Return to Normalcy: Der Spiegel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s national health system, an artefact of its past as a country founded by socialists, has allowed the country of […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

Saudi women’s activist Loujain al-Hathloul released and tweeting

She remains restrained by a travel ban and limits on public appearances

Global Voices

Epidemics
WHO Busts Wuhan Myths: Pandemic started with wild Animal, not Lab, and Wet Market wasn't Ground Zero

WHO Busts Wuhan Myths: Pandemic started with wild Animal, not Lab, and Wet Market wasn’t Ground Zero

By Dominic Dwyer | – As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian […]

The Conversation

Civil Rights
90 Years of Secular Progress: As Fundamentalism Weakened, I saw America grow Strong and Diverse

90 Years of Secular Progress: As Fundamentalism Weakened, I saw America grow Strong and Diverse

Charleston, WV (Special to Informed Comment) – I’ll be 90 on my next birthday. My long life is sinking, shrinking, slip-sliding away. My wife is […]

James A. Haught

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We can do this:  Americans put in massive 17 Gigawatts of Wind Power in 2020 despite Pandemic, Recession, and Neanderthal Conservatives

We can do this: Americans put in massive 17 Gigawatts of Wind Power in 2020 despite Pandemic, Recession, and Neanderthal Conservatives

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – While conservatives like Texas governor Greg Abbott and Tucker Carlson have been busy putting down wind turbines as unreliable, America […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Could Israel Target the Hague over ICC Prosecution?

Could Israel Target the Hague over ICC Prosecution?

( Middle East Monitor) – It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court […]

Asa Winstanley

Electricity Cost
How the Texas electricity system produced low-cost power but left residents out in the cold

How the Texas electricity system produced low-cost power but left residents out in the cold

By Theodore J. Kury | – Americans often take electricity for granted – until the lights go out. The recent cold wave and storm in […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Harlem Ashram: The roots of revolutionary nonviolence in the United States are in the Black community

Harlem Ashram: The roots of revolutionary nonviolence in the United States are in the Black community

By Joanne Sheehan | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Many are wondering how to respond to the current white supremacist threat. We only have to […]

Waging Nonviolence

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