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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Trump's Debacle in the Desert:  A Post Mortem on the Kurdish-American Military Alliance (1941-2019)

Trump’s Debacle in the Desert: A Post Mortem on the Kurdish-American Military Alliance (1941-2019)

(Informed Comment) – An “After-Action” Report on the Kurds’ Vital Role in The Defeat of ISIS and Death of “God’s Shadow on Earth”: On October […]

Brian Glyn Williams

Climate Crisis
How Big Oil Committed the Greatest Scam in History and Smeared Climate Science

How Big Oil Committed the Greatest Scam in History and Smeared Climate Science

By Naomi Oreskes | – (Tomdispatch.com) – It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the […]

Tomdispatch

Chemical Weapons
On Armistice Day: How WW I is at the Root of our Total Wars-- Poison Gas, Aerial Bombing, Machine Guns

On Armistice Day: How WW I is at the Root of our Total Wars– Poison Gas, Aerial Bombing, Machine Guns

Watching Londoners reveling in the streets on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, the war critic and pacifist Bertrand Russell commented that people had cheered for […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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Israeli Army slammed for Hypocrisy over Cancer Tweet, as Gaza Patients Denied Care

Israeli Army slammed for Hypocrisy over Cancer Tweet, as Gaza Patients Denied Care

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera English reports that a big tweetstorm broke out on Twitter after the Israeli military posted a tweet about […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
The New Middle East That's Coming: End of American Empire?

The New Middle East That’s Coming: End of American Empire?

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – As Saudi Arabia slowly backpedals, we could see an end to the Yemen war, an easing of Iran’s isolation, and […]

Conn M. Hallinan

Antisemitism
At a Time of Rising US Anti-Semitism, Remembering the Nazis' Night of Broken Glass is More Important than Ever

At a Time of Rising US Anti-Semitism, Remembering the Nazis’ Night of Broken Glass is More Important than Ever

By Wolf Gruner | – Every November, communities around the world hold remembrances on the anniversary of the Nazis’ brutal assault on the Jews during […]

The Conversation

Republican Party
Republican Voter Suppression and Election Theft outdoes anything Putin could Dream of

Republican Voter Suppression and Election Theft outdoes anything Putin could Dream of

By Robert P. Alvarez | – (OtherWords.or) – When turnout climbs, Republicans lose. No wonder they’re closing polling places and purging voters all over the […]

Institute for Policy Studies

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Iraq: 17 Rockets target US Base, as Over a Dozen Protesters are Killed in Continued Massive Protests

Iraq: 17 Rockets target US Base, as Over a Dozen Protesters are Killed in Continued Massive Protests

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 17 katyusha rockets targeted a military base south of Mosul Saturday morning where US troops are based. There are […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Emergency: The Climate Crisis may be Caused by Corporations, but it is Workers Who will Pay

Emergency: The Climate Crisis may be Caused by Corporations, but it is Workers Who will Pay

By Theo Wuest | – 40 percent of Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency — and more emergencies are coming. We’ve already seen why. In […]

OtherWords

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