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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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Warped Speed: How Trump’s Push for a Quick and Dirty Covid Vaccine could Boomerang and Destroy Public Trust

Warped Speed: How Trump’s Push for a Quick and Dirty Covid Vaccine could Boomerang and Destroy Public Trust

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Despite more than 205,000 dead and 7.2 million infected, including him, Trump mendaciously claims that the pandemic “affects virtually […]

Dan Dinello

Death Penalty
Two years after Khashoggi’s murder, why is Trump’s America still an accomplice to MBS’s crimes?

Two years after Khashoggi’s murder, why is Trump’s America still an accomplice to MBS’s crimes?

( Code Pink) – Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered on October 2, 2018 by agents of Saudi Arabia’s despotic government, and the […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Donald Trump
Trump's Over-the-Top War Talk is a War Crime: 'Systematic, Constant, Vicious, Remorseless'

Trump’s Over-the-Top War Talk is a War Crime: ‘Systematic, Constant, Vicious, Remorseless’

What pops into your head when you hear the number 1,000 in a political-military context? Having studied German military history, I immediately think of Adolf […]

William J. Astore

Authoritarianism
Arab World, Alarmed at US Debate Debacle, Worries about Military Coup and 'Banana Republic' on Potomac

Arab World, Alarmed at US Debate Debacle, Worries about Military Coup and ‘Banana Republic’ on Potomac

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Arabic press watched the Trump-Biden fiasco of a debate with alarm. The US is so involved in the Arab […]

Juan Cole

Islam
On how there are no “Infidels” in the Qur’an, and how Christians and Jews are never Called That

On how there are no “Infidels” in the Qur’an, and how Christians and Jews are never Called That

My new article is out in The Journal of the American Oriental Society about the meaning of the root k-f-r in the Qur’an, the Muslim […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
U Toronto Dumping of Legal Scholar critical of Israel has Chilling effect on Research, Academic Freedom

U Toronto Dumping of Legal Scholar critical of Israel has Chilling effect on Research, Academic Freedom

By Farida Deif | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – The University of Toronto’s law school allegedly rescinded a job offer for director of […]

Human Rights Watch

Health Care
Is it Time to end Profiteering on Public Health and Nationalize Big Pharma?

Is it Time to end Profiteering on Public Health and Nationalize Big Pharma?

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Over forty years of profiteering by Big Pharma and oligarch control of our economy has left the public […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Most Horrible things Trump said in his Abnormal Debate

Top 5 Most Horrible things Trump said in his Abnormal Debate

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The “debate” was an unfortunate and distasteful spectacle, largely because of Trump’s bullying and mendacious behavior. But let us resist […]

Juan Cole

Armenia
War for Oil, again? Why are Russia and Turkey intervening in the Azerbaijan-Armenia Clashes?

War for Oil, again? Why are Russia and Turkey intervening in the Azerbaijan-Armenia Clashes?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh threaten to destabilize the Caucasus. Turkey and Russia […]

Nikola Mikovic

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