By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli fighter-jets routinely bomb dense urban areas, sometimes with massive bombs, in ways that President Joe Biden characterized as…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Tuesday characterized the United Nations Security Council resolution 2728 demanding an immediate ceasefire…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Security Council has finally passed a ceasefire resolution for Gaza, from which the US abstained, so it…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The South African government lodged an urgent complaint on Monday at the International Court of Justice against the plan…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Calling people animals is a way to dehumanize them, and probably helps convince individuals that the other people around…
Have Arabs been the vitriolic antisemites of history as the media paints them? Or is that infamy the product of Europeans? Juan Cole and Robert Scheer discuss this historical issue…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Israeli airstrikes and ground operations continued over the…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewables revolution around the world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A fourth factor is now…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Qatar successfully brokered the exchange of 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas for 150 Palestinians…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In one of the biggest massacres it has so far committed, the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday bombed the…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hamas leaders have said they were driven to their attack on Israel this weekend by two major considerations, the…
Israeli Airstrike Kills 7 International World Central Kitchen Aid Workers
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli fighter-jets routinely bomb dense urban areas, sometimes with massive bombs, in ways that President Joe Biden characterized as…
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Naked Hypocrisy: The US Cited UNSC Resolutions to Invade Iraq, Now Call Gaza Ceasefire Demand ‘Non-Binding’
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Tuesday characterized the United Nations Security Council resolution 2728 demanding an immediate ceasefire…
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Juan Cole: As Israel Defies UNSC Demand for Gaza Ceasefire, UN Human Rights Body Slams Ongoing “Genocide”
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Security Council has finally passed a ceasefire resolution for Gaza, from which the US abstained, so it…
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Juan Cole: Is Tehran Winning the Middle East?
How the Gaza Conflict Made Democracy's Name Mud for Millions
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South Africa Lodges Urgent Complaint With ICJ Over Israel’s Plan to Assault Rafah
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The South African government lodged an urgent complaint on Monday at the International Court of Justice against the plan…
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New York Times’ Friedman Hits New Low With Animalization of Arabs and Iranians
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Calling people animals is a way to dehumanize them, and probably helps convince individuals that the other people around…
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As Palestinians Continue to Die, the History of Their Betrayal by the “Free World” Tells Us Why
Have Arabs been the vitriolic antisemites of history as the media paints them? Or is that infamy the product of Europeans? Juan Cole and Robert Scheer discuss this historical issue…
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Israeli-Made Famine: Denial of Food Aid Could Kill 22,000 Palestinians This Month, Half of Them Children
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Israeli airstrikes and ground operations continued over the…
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California’s Great Battery Revolution Allows Closure of Peaker Gas Plants and Move to 100% Wind, Solar, Water
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewables revolution around the world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A fourth factor is now…
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How Big Oil Is Taking Us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride
With the World the Hottest in 125,000 Years, We're Being Gaslighted.
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This Is a War on Children, and ‘Safe Zones’ Are Death Traps: UNICEF
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip…
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50 Israeli Hostages To Be Exchanged for 150 Palestinian ‘Prisoners’ — Why the Prisoners Are Also Hostages
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Qatar successfully brokered the exchange of 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas for 150 Palestinians…
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Palestine’s Obituary
Juan Cole offers his expertise in the Middle East to explain how we’ve gotten to the current state of affairs in Palestine and Israel.
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Israel in Search of Its Hiroshima: Massive Bomb Wipes Out 20 Apt. Buildings, Kills, Wounds 400 Civilians
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In one of the biggest massacres it has so far committed, the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday bombed the…
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Can Hamas Survive the Stupidity of Its ISIL-Style Tactics?
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hamas leaders have said they were driven to their attack on Israel this weekend by two major considerations, the…
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