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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Trump and our Second Gilded Age-- Even more Disgusting than the First

Trump and our Second Gilded Age– Even more Disgusting than the First

Why, then, when Veblen saw America’s plutocratic bent so clearly, is he now neglected?

Tomdispatch

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Peak Crisis in Sudan as Army elements side with Youth, Women against Dictator Bashir

Peak Crisis in Sudan as Army elements side with Youth, Women against Dictator Bashir

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Omar Hassan al-Bashir, b. 1944, has been deposed as president of Sudan in the wake of a military coup, according […]

Juan Cole

Iran
IRGC's 'Terrorist' Designation Raises U.S. Stakes Over Iran

IRGC’s ‘Terrorist’ Designation Raises U.S. Stakes Over Iran

Ostovar adds that the risks will depend on how Iran decides to respond

Golnaz Esfandiari

Israel/ Palestine
Airbnb pivots, will List Israeli Squatter Settlements on Palestinian Land in West Bank

Airbnb pivots, will List Israeli Squatter Settlements on Palestinian Land in West Bank

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Home-renting company, Airbnb, confirmed it would not implement a planned delisting of Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law, in […]

Maan News Agency

Israel
Netanyahu won in Israel because his Rivals campaigned as Netanyahu Lite

Netanyahu won in Israel because his Rivals campaigned as Netanyahu Lite

The silence of Gantz’s team on the two-state solution enabled Netanyahu to move discussion to the hard-right’s agenda to annex the occupied territories.

The Conversation

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Zionist OA's Mort Klein uses House Panel on White Nationalism to spread anti-Muslim Blood Libel

Zionist OA’s Mort Klein uses House Panel on White Nationalism to spread anti-Muslim Blood Libel

Zionist Organization of America head Morton Klein testified Tuesday before a congressional inquiry into white nationalism and promptly excused white nationalism. Klein denied that the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Far Right, Expansionist Netanyahu Poised to win 5th Term as Israeli PM

Far Right, Expansionist Netanyahu Poised to win 5th Term as Israeli PM

Trump signed a proclamation, with Netanyahu by his side in the White House, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights

Middle East Monitor

Drugs
Decriminalizing the Drug War:  The Damage done by a Century of Drug Prohibition

Decriminalizing the Drug War: The Damage done by a Century of Drug Prohibition

Medical professionals across Portugal adopted harm-reduction measures that would provide a striking record of proven success

Alfred W. McCoy

Islamophobia
Don't Blame Islamic Law for Muslim Extremism -- Blame Western Colonialism

Don’t Blame Islamic Law for Muslim Extremism — Blame Western Colonialism

There is no inherent tension between Sharia, human rights and the rule of law

The Conversation

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