Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 , the Israeli government on Friday approved the ceasefire in Gaza and the hostage exchange, and agreed to begin withdrawing troops from the west of the Strip. The approval came after the arrival of President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoys Steve Witkoff and […]
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Archives for 2025
“From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:19
With no. 19 in in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the theme turns away from the glory of kings as a flash-in-the-pan to the impermanence of life for everyone. One of the tropes common in the subsequent poems, already used in no. 18, is that we are clay and […]
Never in a Million Years: 10 Reasons why Trump should never be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Who doesn’t know that President Donald Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and said bitterly, “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me”? And for once, he’s right. He won’t get one, but wrong, of […]
A short History of the Gaza Strip takes a long View of today’s Conflict
By Martin Kear, University of Sydney (The Conversation) – A Short History of the Gaza Strip, by historian Anne Irfan, is a timely addition to an important corpus of literature taking a historical and contextual view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Review: A Short History of the Gaza Strip – Anne Irfan (W.W. Norton) By telling […]
As Ceasefire Looms, Gaza’s Children are Still Starving
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump peace plan has resulted in an agreement between Hamas and Israel to pause fighting and exchange prisoners. Other points in the plan, including an Israeli troop withdrawal and the laying down of arms by Hamas, appear still to be being negotiated, which is to say that we are […]
Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN, Regardless of the Trump Plan
( Codepink ) – As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the illegal occupation of Palestine. Trump’s White House meeting with […]
Forced to Work on an Overheating Planet
Workers on the front lines of climate change are treated as expendable. This is morally bankrupt and unsustainable By Denise Brennan As the planet heats up, labour conditions are rapidly shifting. Climate change is supercharging exploitation and normalising unsafe work as corporations continue to prioritise profits over workers’ rights and wellbeing. This new era needs […]
For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains two big surprises. The first is that sustainable sources of energy have now overtaken coal for the first time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The second is that […]
Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities
2 Years Since October 7, 2023 Highlights Need to Protect Civilians Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – United States President Donald Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” announced on September 29, 2025, is no substitute for the urgent action governments need to take to protect civilians and support justice after two years of grave abuses […]
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