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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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Tens of Thousands of Iraqis mass in Baghdad to Demand Expulsion of US Troops, Hang Trump in Effigy

Tens of Thousands of Iraqis mass in Baghdad to Demand Expulsion of US Troops, Hang Trump in Effigy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tens of thousands of Iraqis massed in the Jadriya district of Baghdad on Friday to demand that U.S. troops leave […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Auschwitz 75 years on: preserving survivors’ voices and listening to those of their children

Auschwitz 75 years on: preserving survivors’ voices and listening to those of their children

By Sara Jones | – In December 2019, four people were shot dead at a kosher market in New Jersey, a horrific knife attack was […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine and the Oppression of the Map

Palestine and the Oppression of the Map

( Al-Shabaka) – The practice of mapping in Palestine-Israel has long been an exercise in power, imperialism, and dispossession. From the British Mandate to the […]

Zena Agha

Constitution
Chief Justice Roberts is Forced to Preside over an Impeachment that his Ruinous "Citizens United" Ruling Helped Foster

Chief Justice Roberts is Forced to Preside over an Impeachment that his Ruinous “Citizens United” Ruling Helped Foster

(Inequality.org) – In the decade since this disastrous Supreme Court ruling, just 11 wealthy people have made 20 percent of super PAC donations. Ten years […]

Tiffany Muller

Featured
Read it and Weep, Moscow Mitch: 100 MW of Solar to be bought by Kentucky Coal-Country Utilities for Toyota

Read it and Weep, Moscow Mitch: 100 MW of Solar to be bought by Kentucky Coal-Country Utilities for Toyota

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The East Kentucky utilities Kentucky Utilities and Louisville Gas & Electric have applied for permission from state regulators to buy […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
American Apocalypse: The Rapture of a U.S. Foreign Policy Off the Rails

American Apocalypse: The Rapture of a U.S. Foreign Policy Off the Rails

By Danny Sjursen | – (Tomdispatch.com) – In March 1906, on the heels of the U.S. Army’s massacre of some 1,000 men, women, and children […]

Danny Sjursen

Displaced and Refugees
World Court Rules against Buddhist Burma on Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims

World Court Rules against Buddhist Burma on Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims

International Court of Justice Unanimously Orders Measures to Prevent Genocide

Human Rights Watch

Science Fiction
Science Fiction Author William Gibson:  Nostalgia for the Present and Future Fatigue

Science Fiction Author William Gibson: Nostalgia for the Present and Future Fatigue

By Andre Spicer | – The future isn’t what it used to be, at least according to the Canadian science fiction novelist William Gibson. In […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Back to 1924: Trump mulls adding Pure anti-African Racism to Visa ban, in Addition to anti-Muslim Hate

Back to 1924: Trump mulls adding Pure anti-African Racism to Visa ban, in Addition to anti-Muslim Hate

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicole Narea at Vox reports that Trump is considering adding some of Africa’s most important countries to his visa ban, […]

Juan Cole

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