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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture
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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture

H. Scott Prosterman

Tomer-Yerushalmi freely admits to leaking the video to expose the serious nature of the crimes she was investigating,

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The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

11/06/2025 By Human Rights Watch

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

11/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Drought, Sand Storms and Evacuations: how Iran’s Climate Crisis gets Ignored

Drought, Sand Storms and Evacuations: how Iran’s Climate Crisis gets Ignored

By Sanam Mahoozi, City St George’s, University of London (The Conversation) – Iran and Israel fought a 12-day war in June. Although a ceasefire was […]

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Democratic Party
Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era

Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide […]

Norman Solomon

Academic Freedom
Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance

By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October […]

Mehmet Rakipoglu and İbrahim Ozcosar

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

  by Ronny P Sasmita ( Middle East Monitor ) – The latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have once again exposed the frailty of what […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

By Christoph Nedopil, Griffith University (The Conversation) – The price of partnership with the United States has changed. Washington is now using assurances of defence […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East

The New Model of Autocratic Cooperation: The US, Russia and the Middle East

Quincy, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Today, and particularly in the Middle East, concepts like national interest, class, and geopolitics are fading compared […]

Scott Corey

Omar Khayyam
“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

“And one by one crept silently to Rest:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:21

Stanza 21 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues with the theme of the shortness of life […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

Major Israeli Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, With Extensive Bombardment, killing 51 Palestinians

By Brett Wilkins | – ( Commondreams.org ) – Gaza officials said that at least 51 Palestinians, including numerous children, were killed across the strip […]

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A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill

A Matter of Life and Death: Trump, RFK Jr. and Lies that Kill

By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of […]

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