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Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right
Donald Trump

Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right

Juan Cole

Trump’s Gaza plans have no concrete reality, consisting of a mere Potemkin Village: the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are sleeping rough

Ramadan under the Rubble: Gaza welcomes Holy Month amid Unhealed Wounds

Ramadan under the Rubble: Gaza welcomes Holy Month amid Unhealed Wounds

02/21/2026 By Middle East Monitor

Food and War in Sudan

Food and War in Sudan

02/21/2026 By The Conversation

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Top US academic association decries Israel boycott

Top US academic association decries Israel boycott

Association of American Universities releases statement saying measure ‘clearly violates’ academic freedom

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Afghanistan
FDL Book Salon on Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

FDL Book Salon on Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

Hosting Book Salon at Firedoglake: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Andrew J. Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Author: Juan […]

Juan Cole

Gov’t lost its legitimacy: Turkey's main opposition leader

Gov’t lost its legitimacy: Turkey's main opposition leader

Turkey’s main opposition leader has raised the pressure on the government over the massive graft probe

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Arab Spring
Egypt Military Junta Sentences 2011 Revolutionaries to 3 Years Hard Labor

Egypt Military Junta Sentences 2011 Revolutionaries to 3 Years Hard Labor

Egypt court jails anti-Mubarak activists for 3 years (via AFP) An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced three activists who spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Hosni […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Obama warns South Sudan against Coup as US Plane comes under Fire

Obama warns South Sudan against Coup as US Plane comes under Fire

Obama warns S. Sudan against military coup (via AFP) President Barack Obama warned South Sudan on Saturday that Washington and its allies would cut aid […]

Juan Cole

Popular Culture
SNL:  Not only is Santa Black, but one of his Reindeers is Gay

SNL: Not only is Santa Black, but one of his Reindeers is Gay

Kenan Thompson and Cecily Strong make fun of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and her silly insistence that “Santa Clause is white.” (See also IC’s take […]

Juan Cole

poetry
Walt Whitman’s “Salut au Monde” (Poem of the Day)

Walt Whitman’s “Salut au Monde” (Poem of the Day)

(By Walt Whitman) “Salut au Monde” [Greeting to the World: from Leaves of Grass, 1856] 1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! […]

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Iran
Iranian-Armenian Nurse taking an X-Ray in Isfahan, 1900 (Photo of the Day)

Iranian-Armenian Nurse taking an X-Ray in Isfahan, 1900 (Photo of the Day)

(By Juan Cole) This amazing photograph probably dates to 1900. Taken in at the Christian Mission Society hospital in Julfa, the Armenian neighborhood of Isfahan, […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors:  Was the Law Broken?  Did Obama Know?

NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors: Was the Law Broken? Did Obama Know?

(By Juan Cole) Reuters gets the scoop: the National Security Agency gave internet security firm RSA some $10 million to use an NSA encryption formula […]

Juan Cole

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