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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
Donald Trump

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

09/19/2025 By contributors

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

09/19/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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For World Poetry Day:  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

For World Poetry Day: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Translated by Juan Cole From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Tonight, who brought you, tipsy, here to me? From there beneath the veil, whose hand […]

Juan Cole

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California releasing inmates for fear of Coronavirus, but Israelis Keep Vulnerable Gaza as Largest Open Air Prison

California releasing inmates for fear of Coronavirus, but Israelis Keep Vulnerable Gaza as Largest Open Air Prison

Update: On Sunday morning March 22, Gaza health authorities reported two Covid-19 cases in the Strip. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – California prisons are releasing […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Reclaiming Judaism from the Lion’s Den: Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinians

Reclaiming Judaism from the Lion’s Den: Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinians

Book Reviw Susie Linfield’s, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky,”(Yale University Press) and Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories […]

Benjamin Tua

Israel/ Palestine
Dems plead with Trump to Ensure Israel doesn't Use US Weapons on Palestinian Civilians (Good Luck with That)

Dems plead with Trump to Ensure Israel doesn’t Use US Weapons on Palestinian Civilians (Good Luck with That)

( Middle East Monitor) – Democrats in the US House of Representatives have sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking the government […]

Middle East Monitor

Bernie Sanders
We need a People's Response to Coronavirus - and the Sanders Campaign is Uniquely Poised to Lead

We need a People’s Response to Coronavirus – and the Sanders Campaign is Uniquely Poised to Lead

By Fhatima Paulino, Carlos Saavedra, and Rodrigo Saavedra | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – The movement behind the Bernie Sanders campaign has the vision, infrastructure […]

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Trump Spared Iran from Bombing, but his Sanctions Fed Pandemic in which 1 dies every 10 Minutes

Trump Spared Iran from Bombing, but his Sanctions Fed Pandemic in which 1 dies every 10 Minutes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee and Kristen Welker at NBC News report that Trump refused to bomb Iran last weekend […]

Juan Cole

China
Why Americans should stop Talking about "China Flu" and Learn some things from China

Why Americans should stop Talking about “China Flu” and Learn some things from China

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – There is an old saying that politics stops at the water’s edge. Never really true, it is […]

John Buell

Afghanistan
Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?  International Prosecutors want to Find Out

Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan? International Prosecutors want to Find Out

By Hurst Hannum | – International prosecutors tasked with looking into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan have no shortage of potential targets. Afghan soldiers and […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
Knowledge of the Holocaust wanes for Millennials, Gen Z, Even as Anti-Semitism Rises

Knowledge of the Holocaust wanes for Millennials, Gen Z, Even as Anti-Semitism Rises

By Jonmaesha Beltran | – (Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – Seventy-five years after the atrocities of Auschwitz, memories of the Holocaust are fading for younger […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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