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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis
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17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis

Juan Cole

The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers

Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

Trump’s Plan for Strikes on Iran carries major Risks – and the US Military knows it

02/26/2026 By The Conversation

Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

Protesting LA Public Library’s Cancellation of “Read Palestine” Week, Uninviting Authors

02/26/2026 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Occupartheid is Isolating and Degrading Israel

Occupartheid is Isolating and Degrading Israel

​(Open Letter from Daniel Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv) “Love your neighbor as yourself” This is the core requirement for overcoming blindness caused by hate and fear […]

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Central Asia
The Eurasian Pivot: Is it China's and Russia's Century?

The Eurasian Pivot: Is it China’s and Russia’s Century?

(By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch) HONG KONG — A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis […]

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Arab Spring
Second Libyan Upheaval, this Time Against Political Islam, Extremist Militias

Second Libyan Upheaval, this Time Against Political Islam, Extremist Militias

(By Juan Cole) In Benghazi on Monday morning, fighting resumed between the “Libyan National Army” forces of Col. Khalifa Hifter and fundamentalist extremists. The latter […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Anti-Muslim Gadfly to run DC Bus ads linking Hitler to Islam  (+Russell Brand video against Islam Hatred)

Anti-Muslim Gadfly to run DC Bus ads linking Hitler to Islam (+Russell Brand video against Islam Hatred)

An organization run by an anti-Mulsim blogger has purchased billboards on the sides of twenty Washington DC Metro buses featuring Adolph Hitler and calling for an end to ‘all aid to Islamic countries.’ The ads are paid for by American Freedom Defense…

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Climate Change
Congressional Gridlock on Climate Change hurts US Int'l Leadership on Issue

Congressional Gridlock on Climate Change hurts US Int’l Leadership on Issue

(David Victor via The Stanley Foundation) As the world heads toward a new round of climate talks in 2015, the moment is ripe for concerted, […]

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Climate Change
8 False Climate-Change-Denial Memes Debunked by Real Scientists

8 False Climate-Change-Denial Memes Debunked by Real Scientists

Most people who deny that human activity is warming the planet just dismiss a massive body of scientific evidence as a big hoax. But there’s a more sophisticated set of climate “skeptics” who make arguments that, at least to the lay ear, sound…

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Central Intelligence Agency
America as Torture Central: From Prisons to "Black Sites"

America as Torture Central: From Prisons to “Black Sites”

(By Sarah Lazare) Amnesty International report on global torture exposes inhumane acts perpetrated by United States Thirty years after ratifying the UN Convention Against Torture, […]

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GOP holds hearings but in the Real Benghazi a Retired Col. is bombarding Extremists

GOP holds hearings but in the Real Benghazi a Retired Col. is bombarding Extremists

(By Juan Cole) As congressional Republicans prepare to have yet another round of investigations into the September 11, 2012 attacks on a US “consulate” in […]

Juan Cole

Economy
Under World Cup Pressure, Qatar reforms Guest Worker Laws, abolishes Sponsorship System

Under World Cup Pressure, Qatar reforms Guest Worker Laws, abolishes Sponsorship System

Qatar to end sponsorship system for foreign workers (via AFP) Qatar, host of the 2022 football World Cup, said Wednesday it will abolish its controversial […]

Juan Cole

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