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“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza
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“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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Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

Republican Food: French President Macron nails his colours to the Mast of Islamophobia

By Chris Myant ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In the small Provençal town of Aups, where the local Catholic church declares République française: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité [The […]

Open Democracy

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Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an "arrogant cancer on ... democracy" - Rudd

Call for Fox Media News Monopoly to be Broken up: Rupert Murdoch an “arrogant cancer on … democracy” – Rudd

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for the break up of his country’s media monopolies (almost all major […]

Juan Cole

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Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Ask Amy Coney Barrett If Bosses Should Be Free to Fire Workers at Will

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – What is at stake in the battle over the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett? For most commentators […]

John Buell

Authoritarianism
Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Patriotism, American Style: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sacramento, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – What is Patriotism? Let’s begin with the difficult part: defining and understanding patriotism. Patriotism refers to the feelings […]

Bahman Fozouni

Donald Trump
Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick:  The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy

Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick: The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On August 21st, six nuclear-capable B-52H Stratofortress bombers, representing approximately one-seventh of the war-ready U.S. B-52H bomber fleet, flew from their […]

Michael T. Klare

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Graham to Blacks, Immigrants: 'You can go anywhere in this state, you just have to be a Conservative'

Graham to Blacks, Immigrants: ‘You can go anywhere in this state, you just have to be a Conservative’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lindsey Graham couldn’t have another debate with his rival for one of South Carolina’s senate seats, Jamie Harrison, because he […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Despite ambiguity in international law, Palestinians are winning the ‘legitimacy war’

Despite ambiguity in international law, Palestinians are winning the ‘legitimacy war’

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Ramzy Baroud

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Rightwing Populism Will Make You Sick—Really

Rightwing Populism Will Make You Sick—Really

(Foreign Correspondent) – The four countries with the most confirmed COVID-19 infections in the world are all led by rightwing populists: the US, India, Brazil, […]

Reese Erlich

Epidemics
America's New Peculiar Institution: Health Care only for those who Can Afford it

America’s New Peculiar Institution: Health Care only for those who Can Afford it

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – The highly respected British medical journal, “The Lancet”, recently summarized the health insurance situation in the USA: “Although […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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