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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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Israel/ Palestine
The Scam of branding Criticism of Israel ‘Anti-Semitic’ is over: B’Tselem says it is an Apartheid State

The Scam of branding Criticism of Israel ‘Anti-Semitic’ is over: B’Tselem says it is an Apartheid State

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – When B’Tselem described Israel as an apartheid state in a position paper last week, […]

Middle East Monitor

Joe Biden
Do Biden's Foreign Policy Appointees signal new Cold Wars with Russia, China?

Do Biden’s Foreign Policy Appointees signal new Cold Wars with Russia, China?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Hard as it is to believe in this time of record pandemic deaths, insurrection, and an unprecedented encore impeachment, Joe Biden is […]

Danny Sjursen

nuclear weapons
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A New Chance, as 50 Countries Pledge no Nukes

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A New Chance, as 50 Countries Pledge no Nukes

( Portside ) – A nuclear darkness has engulfed the world for seven decades, with only intermittent breakthroughs of light when treaties among nuclear nations […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Donald Trump
Trump  targeted innocent Muslims with Visa Ban on phony pretext of 'Terrorism,' then unleashed real White Terrorism on Capitol

Trump targeted innocent Muslims with Visa Ban on phony pretext of ‘Terrorism,’ then unleashed real White Terrorism on Capitol

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Muslim visa ban that Trump got through on his third try, and in which the Supreme Court to its […]

Juan Cole

Books
The Hill we Climb: Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem

The Hill we Climb: Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem

Amanda Gorman | – ( Buy her forthcoming poetry collection via Penguin Random House.) The Hill We Climb When day comes we ask ourselves, where […]

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Donald Trump
The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office

The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In his perfunctory farewell speech, released on Tuesday many months after he had churlishly quit on the American people […]

David Faris

Israel/ Palestine
The Height of Chutzpah: Notorious Racist Netanyahu seeks Palestinian-Israeli Votes to divide the Joint List

The Height of Chutzpah: Notorious Racist Netanyahu seeks Palestinian-Israeli Votes to divide the Joint List

By Ali Abu Hableh | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Arab MKs (members of the Knesset — parliament) in Israel from the various parties […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
With Yellen at Treasury, Can we Finally get a Progressive Carbon Tax?

With Yellen at Treasury, Can we Finally get a Progressive Carbon Tax?

By Rachel Kyte | – Janet Yellen is poised to be the next U.S. Treasury secretary, and her inbox will require every ounce of her […]

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Time for Biden to end the Forever Wars and bring Iran in from the Cold

Time for Biden to end the Forever Wars and bring Iran in from the Cold

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although former president Trump claims to have avoided starting any new wars, he in fact put the US on a […]

Juan Cole

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