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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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Homeland Secrets: Shootings by Homeland Security agents get little scrutiny

Homeland Secrets: Shootings by Homeland Security agents get little scrutiny

War Zone By Derek Hall, Mackenzie Shuman, Devan Sauer, Nicole Ludden and José-Ignacio Castañeda Perez | – Howard Center for Investigative Journalism | – ( […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Bernie Sanders
The Fall of France to the Nazis?  Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats' Bernie Derangement Syndrome

The Fall of France to the Nazis? Chris Matthews and Corporate Democrats’ Bernie Derangement Syndrome

NB Matthews apologized for his remarks on 2/24/20 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was watching MSNBC Saturday afternoon during the voting at the Nevada […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Kushner "Deal of the Century": If Only America's Profound Betrayal of the Palestinian People Came as a Shock

The Kushner “Deal of the Century”: If Only America’s Profound Betrayal of the Palestinian People Came as a Shock

Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment) – President Trump unveiled his administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan at the White House on January 28, 2020, telling […]

Ali Abootalebi

Bernie Sanders
Sanders' Medicare for All: Why the Nevada Culinary Workers revolted against their Union Bosses

Sanders’ Medicare for All: Why the Nevada Culinary Workers revolted against their Union Bosses

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – In the days leading up to the Nevada Democratic caucus media frequently referred to the “powerful” 60,000 […]

John Buell

Congress
The Age of Trump and Pseudo America: Phonying Up our Key Institutions

The Age of Trump and Pseudo America: Phonying Up our Key Institutions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The impeachment of the president of the United States! Surely such a mega-historic event would reverberate for weeks or months, leaving in […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Bernie Sanders
Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency:  The Green New Deal

Why the Russian Petro-state is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: The Green New Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused by Western intelligence agencies of seeking to interfere in the 2020 US elections […]

Juan Cole

Inscriptions
The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

The Prophet Muhammad’s Wives and Muslim Women in Early Arabian Rock Inscriptions

Ahmad Bin Ghanim al-Ida’ published a photograph of an inscription he found south of al-Ula (near ancient Hijr) in Saudi Arabia. It was picked up […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

( Otherwords) – In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists. By Jim Hightower | February 19, 2020 Lyndon Johnson […]

Jim Hightower

Afghanistan
Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

Can the US-Taliban Truce Hold, Bringing Peace to Afghanistan after 40 Years of War?

By Elizabeth B. Hessami | – If a seven-day truce between the United States and the Taliban holds until Feb. 28, 2020, Afghanistan’s decades-long conflict […]

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