Economic grievances are now directly tied to the functioning and political structure of the Islamic Republic itself
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The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future
Europe wants to reduce the suffering in Gaza. The U.S. is focused on security. By Imran Khalid | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – […]
Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It appears unlikely that the Israeli Justice Ministry will approve a pardon for Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” […]
“With them the seed of Wisdom:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28
Quatrain no. 28 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues riffing on stanza 121 in the Bodleian manuscript. XXVIII. […]
Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers
( Tomdispatch.com ) – As more of the Epstein files are released, reminding us of Donald Trump’s close association with Jeffrey Epstein and the young people he […]
How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms
Farah Awadalla ( Waging Nonviolence ) – For Nour Omar, a student in Cairo with 5,000 Instagram followers, reposting news about the genocide in Gaza […]
Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas
As defenseless Venezuelan fishermen are slaughtered by a military blindly obeying his illegal orders, President Trump — wearing a phony peace medallion — parades before […]
Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’
By Usman Butt X: TheUsmanButt ( Middle East Monitor ) – Ahmed Al-Sharaa has been in power in Syria for nearly 1-year. The lightening […]
“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony
By Clodagh Philippa Guerin, University of Limerick (The Conversation) – In times of war and crisis, poetry can become more than just art: it can […]
War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond
Lincoln, NE (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Long before Israeli leaders invoked biblical rhetoric to justify the “erasure” of a Palestinian homeland, another colonizing […]
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