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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
That Time when America was a Superpower before Trump surrendered to China

That Time when America was a Superpower before Trump surrendered to China

( Tomdispatch.com ) – After four years of Donald Trump’s fitful tenure, America is awakening from a long, troubled sleep to discover, like the fictional […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Climate Crisis
President Biden, We can do this too:  Europe generates more electricity with Renewables than Fossil Fuels for First Time

President Biden, We can do this too: Europe generates more electricity with Renewables than Fossil Fuels for First Time

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new report from Ember and Agora Energiewende finds that in 2020, the 27 countries of the European Union generated […]

Juan Cole

Fundamentalism
Right Wing Laws to "protect religious freedom" Enable Fundamentalists to Discriminate

Right Wing Laws to “protect religious freedom” Enable Fundamentalists to Discriminate

Charleston, W.Va. (Informed Comment) – Across America, right-wing politicians pass “religious freedom” laws that have a single purpose: to let narrow-minded believers discriminate against gays […]

James A. Haught

Epidemics
Will the Pandemic help Shift the world from Oil to Green Energy?

Will the Pandemic help Shift the world from Oil to Green Energy?

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic […]

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia
Hating on Muslims in Western Media is based on the Big Lie

Hating on Muslims in Western Media is based on the Big Lie

By Stuart Chambers | – Although anti-Muslim sentiments certainly existed long before 2001, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the response to them intensified anti-Muslim […]

The Conversation

Arab Spring
Failures of Democracy in America and the Arab Spring

Failures of Democracy in America and the Arab Spring

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today is ten years since Egyptian youth gathered in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo demanding the resignation of Egypt’s brutal […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19

Confronting Total Collapse in Israeli-Occupied Gaza: Division and COVID-19

By Ali Abdel-Wahab | – ( Al-Shabaka ) – Gaza has always been unique among the different parts of Palestine. Its current particularity stems from […]

Al-Shabaka

Far Right
Equal Opportunity Hate: The Angry White women of the Capitol Far Right

Equal Opportunity Hate: The Angry White women of the Capitol Far Right

By Jakana Thomas | – The terror inflicted on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 laid bare America’s problem with violent extremism. The FBI and […]

The Conversation

Bush
How Bush’s Wars led to Trump’s Insurrection: From Occupying Iraq to Occupying the Capitol

How Bush’s Wars led to Trump’s Insurrection: From Occupying Iraq to Occupying the Capitol

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – “I got out of the Marines and within a few years, 15 of my buddies had killed […]

Tomdispatch

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