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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Not Just Ethnicity: Turkey v. Kurds and the Great Divide over Political Islam v. the Secular Left

Not Just Ethnicity: Turkey v. Kurds and the Great Divide over Political Islam v. the Secular Left

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey’s incursion into Syria has roiled the Middle East and NATO countries, demonstrating one key polarizing divide on both sides […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
On Yom Kippur, remembering the Diversity Iraq’s Mosul has Lost with Nationalism and ISIL

On Yom Kippur, remembering the Diversity Iraq’s Mosul has Lost with Nationalism and ISIL

By Stephennie Mulder | – On Yom Kippur each year, as Jews around the world pray for atonement, the biblical Book of Jonah is read […]

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Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency

Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Trump is counting on his base to endorse his increasingly open law-breaking. It may not end well. Trump’s public […]

John Feffer

Iraq
Iraq protests expose the crisis in the regime’s integrity

Iraq protests expose the crisis in the regime’s integrity

By Abdulwahhab Badrakhan | – A third wave of protests in Iraq, following those in 2015 and 2018, continues to shake the three pillars of […]

Middle East Monitor

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Is Trump's Syria Policy about to Loose 12,000 ISIL Terrorists on the World?

Is Trump’s Syria Policy about to Loose 12,000 ISIL Terrorists on the World?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tessa Fox at Al Jazeera writes that Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of U.S. special operations forces from northern Syria in expectation […]

Juan Cole

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High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century

High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century

(Tomdispatch.com ) – There is blood in the water and frenzied sharks are closing in for the kill. Or so they think. From the time […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Trump decision to withdraw troops from Syria opens way for dangerous Middle East power play

Trump decision to withdraw troops from Syria opens way for dangerous Middle East power play

By Tony Walker | – US President Donald Trump’s precipitate announcement he was withdrawing American forces from northeast Syria to enable Turkey to assert its […]

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Is Najran the Saudi Frontline in its Failing Yemen War, or its Achilles Heel?

Is Najran the Saudi Frontline in its Failing Yemen War, or its Achilles Heel?

By Omar Ahmed | – The 14th century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun is famed for his treatise Al-Muqqadimah and is regarded as “the father of […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Winners and Losers from Trump throwing Syrian Kurds under the Bus

Winners and Losers from Trump throwing Syrian Kurds under the Bus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The reasons for which the Washington Establishment is appalled at Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of US special operations troops from northern […]

Juan Cole

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