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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

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Beginning Of End Of Anglo American Iraq

The Beginning of the End of Anglo-American Iraq Incoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will remove all British troops from Iraq within two years (before […]

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8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 Us Gis Killed 16 Shiite Kurds

8 US GIs Killed 16 Shiite Kurds Massacred Suhail: Iraq has 3 million widows *8 US troops were announced killed in Iraq on Saturday. British […]

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Wright Boycott Threat Puts Pressure On

Wright: Boycott Threat Puts Pressure on Iran Robin Wright at the Washington Post has a piece online today on the growing pressure among US academics […]

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Al Hakim In Us For Cancer Treatment

Al-Hakim in US for Cancer Treatment Sistani Aide: US not Serious on Terror Militia Rule in Basra Robin Wright reports that Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the […]

Juan Cole

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Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh In Prison I Copied Here Last

Haleh in Prison I copied here last Saturday our MESA letter of protest about the Iranian government’s imprisonment of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari [also spelled […]

Juan Cole

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Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many Thanks To

Annual Blogads Survey Many thanks to readers willing to take the blogads survey. I’m told it isn’t time-consuming. Although I would be blogging anyway, I […]

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Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage Is As Bad As Ever

Oil Sabotage is “As Bad as Ever”: Shahristani 60 Dead in violence In an interview with Patrick Cockburn of the Independent, Iraq’s Oil Minister, Hussein […]

Juan Cole

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Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study On Iraq

Chatham House Study on Iraq Fragmentation Gareth Stansfield of Exeter University has written a position paper for Chatham House in the UK, spelling out how […]

Juan Cole

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World Bank Reaction To Wolfowitz

World Bank Reaction To Wolfowitz

Ding, Dong, the Witz has Fled The reaction among World Bank employees at the news that Paul Wolfowitz, their president, will resign on June 30: […]

Juan Cole

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