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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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The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal

The Future May be Female, but the Pandemic is Patriarchal

( Tomdispatch.com) – Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, […]

Rebecca Gordon

African-Americans
Trump admits that Easy Voting would Defeat Republicans. That's because they've made Their Base White and Evangelical

Trump admits that Easy Voting would Defeat Republicans. That’s because they’ve made Their Base White and Evangelical

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Colin Kalmbacher at Law&Crime surveys reactions to Trump’s admission in an interview on Fox News that a mail-in ballot program […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Israel Gov't is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

The Israel Gov’t is taking advantage of Pandemic to Heighten Military Dictatorship over Palestinians

The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The threat of the rapidly […]

Asa Winstanley

Employment
Pandemic will cause another Housing Crisis, and Without Strong Long-Term Gov't Policy it Will hit Workers Hardest

Pandemic will cause another Housing Crisis, and Without Strong Long-Term Gov’t Policy it Will hit Workers Hardest

By Roshanak Mehdipanah and Gregory Sallabank | – Millions of Americans are suddenly out of work as the financial and economic crisis sparked by the […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
How My Dad, Born just before the Spanish Flu, Predicted the Decline of America

How My Dad, Born just before the Spanish Flu, Predicted the Decline of America

( Tomdispatch.com) – My dad was born in 1917. Somehow, he survived the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919, but an outbreak of whooping cough in […]

William J. Astore

China
The Real Danger behind Trump's "China Virus" Mantra

The Real Danger behind Trump’s “China Virus” Mantra

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – The “China-Virus” mantra illustrates well this administration’s habit of responding to challenges by branding people as ethnic, religious, […]

Martin Powers

Feminism
Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation

Presence-as-Resistance: Iranian Women and the Politics of Social Contestation

The history of everyday public resistance on the part of women’s movements in Iran

Navid Pourmokhtari

Donald Trump
Trump bashed Immigrants, but Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines

Trump bashed Immigrants, but Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It turns out we need those foreigners after all, despite what Trump thinks. On Sunday British investigative journalist Iain Overton […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn't so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn’t so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – If you were asked three months ago, when news of the novel Coronavirus we now call Covid-19 was just […]

David Faris

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