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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves
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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

09/16/2025 By Juan Cole

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

09/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel's Netanyahu says the Quiet Part Out Loud:  Palestinians to be "subjects," not Citizens in Apartheid Annexation

Israel’s Netanyahu says the Quiet Part Out Loud: Palestinians to be “subjects,” not Citizens in Apartheid Annexation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with corrupt casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s free newspaper, Israel ha-Yom, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The Other Pandemic:  We haven't Even begun to Flatten the Curve on the Climate Crisis

The Other Pandemic: We haven’t Even begun to Flatten the Curve on the Climate Crisis

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – We are living with two life-threatening crises: Covid-19 and the climate crisis. They pose a common stark fate […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism
How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

How Middle East Governments are using Covid-19 as a Pretext to Crush Human Rights

By Saoussen Ben Cheikh | – (Globalvoices.org) – In response to COVID-19, governments around the world have declared states of emergency, allowing them to take […]

Global Voices

Banking
The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style: Crashes, Then and Now

(Tomdispatch.com) – Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the ghosts […]

Nomi Prins

African-Americans
Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Top 6 Reasons Authorities are Cracking down Hard on Black Protesters while Treating White Supremacist Reopeners with Kid Gloves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My social media feeds have been full of comparisons between the treatment by police of Reopener mobs, some of whom […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads

Amid Yemen Coronavirus Outbreak, Aden Buries its dead while Houthis Bury their Heads

( Al-Bab.com) – There used to be about ten burials a day in the cemeteries of Yemen’s second city, Aden, but since Covid-19 arrived the […]

Brian Whitaker

Israel/ Palestine
Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu's Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank--but for all the Wrong Reasons

Even the Israeli Right is nervous about Netanyahu’s Plans to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank–but for all the Wrong Reasons

By Antoine Shalhat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed during the Likud meeting in the Knesset on […]

Middle East Monitor

Far Right
From Jones's Kool-Aid to Trump's Clorox-- Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

From Jones’s Kool-Aid to Trump’s Clorox– Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

By Michael Nagler | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – When I compared the president and his followers to Jim Jones and the “Peoples Temple” cult […]

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)

Twitter finally Fact-Checks Trump, but Still Lets him Get Away with Murder (Literally)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has apparently finally had a crisis of conscience over the sewer of falsehoods spewed by Trump […]

Juan Cole

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