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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves
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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

09/16/2025 By Juan Cole

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

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The Greening of the New Deal

The Greening of the New Deal

The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now

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Israel/ Palestine
Are Israel Lobbies Primary Threat to First Amendment? Report Exposes Right-Wing Effort to Ban Criticism of Israel in US Schools

Are Israel Lobbies Primary Threat to First Amendment? Report Exposes Right-Wing Effort to Ban Criticism of Israel in US Schools

By Jessica Corbett, staff writer | – ( Commondreams.org) – “Fanatical Zionists are pushing U.S. state legislatures to pass sweeping new restrictions on free speech.” […]

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By rejecting stereotypes, Slam and Ramy show us authentic Arab Muslim men on screen

By rejecting stereotypes, Slam and Ramy show us authentic Arab Muslim men on screen

By Sherene Idriss | – There is a long history of damaging stereotypes of Arab and Muslim men on screen. Because of this, audiences from […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Blaming Victims, Trump  attacks Syrian Kurds as "Communists," "No Angels," PKK as worse than ISIL

Blaming Victims, Trump attacks Syrian Kurds as “Communists,” “No Angels,” PKK as worse than ISIL

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dispatches from the Great Trump Clown Parade, which would be gut-busting hilarious if it did not involve real-world dark horrors, […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump's Endless Wars

Trump’s Endless Wars

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Trump’s not bringing the troops home. He’s been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Does Facebook impose curfews on Palestinians in the ‘blue world’?

Does Facebook impose curfews on Palestinians in the ‘blue world’?

By Hossam Shaker | – When the Arab youth revolted in 2011 to demand freedom and democracy in their countries, Facebook was the social media […]

Middle East Monitor

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Syria: why the Kurds had little option but to do a deal with Bashar al-Assad

Syria: why the Kurds had little option but to do a deal with Bashar al-Assad

By Cengiz Gunes | – When the Syrian military withdrew from the Kurdish populated regions of Syria in July 2012, they left the Kurds in […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Russians, Syrian Army take over Manbij and its US Bases, Blocking Turkey

Russians, Syrian Army take over Manbij and its US Bases, Blocking Turkey

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) took control of the city of Manbij on Tuesday, with Russian gendarmes taking up patrols […]

Juan Cole

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Extorting Ukraine is Bad Enough: But Trump Has Done Much Worse

Extorting Ukraine is Bad Enough: But Trump Has Done Much Worse

By Rebecca Gordon | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought […]

Rebecca Gordon

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