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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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17 Years and $2 Trillion Ago, Bush and Neocons thought it would be a Good Idea to Attack Iraq

17 Years and $2 Trillion Ago, Bush and Neocons thought it would be a Good Idea to Attack Iraq

By Nasim Ahmed | @Nasimbythedocks | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Seventeen years ago, on 19 March 2003, the US led the western […]

Middle East Monitor

Books
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 […]

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