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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

08/23/2025 By ProPublica

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

08/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Iran to Germany:  For sake of Keeping Nuclear Deal, you Must do more to Defy Trump

Iran to Germany: For sake of Keeping Nuclear Deal, you Must do more to Defy Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranians are increasingly impatient with Europe’s lack of concrete steps to protect Iran from Trump’s severe sanctions, and the frustration […]

Juan Cole

Sudan
Why Sudan's deadly Crackdown on Protesters could Escalate in coming Weeks

Why Sudan’s deadly Crackdown on Protesters could Escalate in coming Weeks

By Eric Keels and Joshua Lambert | – Sudanese security forces violently removed a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, on June 3. In addition […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner thinks Israelis have Rights but Palestinians have only Needs (if they Behave)

Kushner thinks Israelis have Rights but Palestinians have only Needs (if they Behave)

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – It was a revealing and quite intersecting interview that Jared Kushner had with Jonathan Swan on Axios on HBO […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It:  Politics of Planetary Destruction

You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It: Politics of Planetary Destruction

By David Bromwich | – (Tomdispatch.com) – More and more, we look into our screens and gizmos. And this helps us — almost as if […]

Tomdispatch

Corruption
Is Jared Kushner Literally in Bed with the Saudis?

Is Jared Kushner Literally in Bed with the Saudis?

The Guardian’s Jon Swain broke the story on Monday that Cadre, a real estate investment firm in which Jared Kushner has as much as a […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Fake Newsman: Anti-Iran Forbes "Writer" is a People's Jihadi Front (TYT Video)

Fake Newsman: Anti-Iran Forbes “Writer” is a People’s Jihadi Front (TYT Video)

“Heshmat Alavi” who has published anti-Iran screeds in Forbes, the Daily Caller and other substandard rightwing venues, does not, according to The Intercept, actually exist. […]

The Young Turks

Donald Trump
Trump's incessant Talk of Mexico Tariffs is about White Nationalism, not Trade

Trump’s incessant Talk of Mexico Tariffs is about White Nationalism, not Trade

By Laura Carlsen | – (FPIF) – There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Islam
Very Early Muslim Piety toward the Prophet Muhammad: Blessings and Intercession

Very Early Muslim Piety toward the Prophet Muhammad: Blessings and Intercession

The great scholar Annemarie Schimmel quoted Arthur Jeffrey, the Australian scholar of Islam, to this effect: “Many years ago . . . the late Shaikh […]

Juan Cole

Yemen
In War-Torn Yemen a Mother and 6 Newborns Die every Two Hours during Labor

In War-Torn Yemen a Mother and 6 Newborns Die every Two Hours during Labor

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that “every two hours, a mother and six newborns die in Yemen due to complications in pregnancy or […]

Middle East Monitor

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