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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Apple Tracking likely a “Bug” or Oversight

Apple Tracking likely a “Bug” or Oversight

The database of all our movements being kept on our iPhones by Apple is likely a software bug or oversight, according to John Gruber. The […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Thousands Protest in Syria as Emergency Law is Lifted

Thousands Protest in Syria as Emergency Law is Lifted

Massive protests have forced the Baathist regime of Bashar al-Asad to lift the state of emergency that has governed the country since 1963. Without the […]

Juan Cole

Energy
Bush’s Pre-War Iraq Oil Deals Alarmed BP

Bush’s Pre-War Iraq Oil Deals Alarmed BP

George W. Bush was quietly approaching US petroleum corporations and trying to do deals with the French and Russian governments and their energy companies regarding […]

Juan Cole

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Starship Amerika and Obama’s GPS Surveillance (Cole in Truthdig)

Starship Amerika and Obama’s GPS Surveillance (Cole in Truthdig)

My column in Truthdig is out: “Starship Amerika.” Excerpt: ‘President Barack Obama is actually siding with police who want to use GPS devices to track […]

Juan Cole

Libya
Saif admits Qaddafis are Brutal Foreign Occupiers

Saif admits Qaddafis are Brutal Foreign Occupiers

Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of the dictator, gave an interview yesterday to the Washington Post. In it he justified the Libyan army’s horrific attacks on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Soldiers' Brutality at Prison Camp for Palestinians

Israeli Soldiers’ Brutality at Prison Camp for Palestinians

Israeli television has shown shocking cellphone video of the October, 2007, actions at Ketziot Prison, against unarmed Palestinian prisoners, by Israeli security forces. The thousand […]

Juan Cole

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Informed Comment & Big Blog on Campus

Informed Comment & Big Blog on Campus

Pamela Paul includes Informed Comment in her Sunday NYT piece, “Big Blog on Campus.” Favorite line from her interview with me: “Good blogging involves attitude […]

Juan Cole

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Saving What’s Left of the Constitution

Saving What’s Left of the Constitution

Hmm. Somehow I missed this one. The American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against the US government under George W. Bush regarding surveillance of phone calls […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt's Ruling Party Dissolved

Egypt’s Ruling Party Dissolved

A special administrative high court in charge of ruling on Egyptian political party affairs on Saturday declared the former ruling party, the National Democratic Party, […]

Juan Cole

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