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Israel’s Shifting Politics
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Israel’s Shifting Politics

Hugh J. Curran

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – PM Benjamin Netanyahu has alienated many in Israeli society, some of whom now revile his leadership: The Times of Israel […]

Enabling the Nightmare in Gaza: Defining Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitic”

Enabling the Nightmare in Gaza: Defining Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitic”

08/04/2025 By Aviva Chomsky

A new Youth-led Lawsuit is challenging Trump’s Fossil Fuel Orders

A new Youth-led Lawsuit is challenging Trump’s Fossil Fuel Orders

08/03/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

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SecDef Mattis Slams Saudie Arabia: ‘Khashoggi killing undermines regional stability’

SecDef Mattis Slams Saudie Arabia: ‘Khashoggi killing undermines regional stability’

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi undermined Middle Eastern stability and that Washington would take […]

Middle East Monitor

Inequality
Report: World’s Richest Got 20% Richer in 2017

Report: World’s Richest Got 20% Richer in 2017

A report published recently by Swiss bank UBS shows the world’s wealthiest are now worth $9.1 trillion, enough to spend $1 million per day for […]

TeleSur

Yemen
Khashoggi’s Murder grabbed Headlines but Brutal Saudi War on Yemen Invisible

Khashoggi’s Murder grabbed Headlines but Brutal Saudi War on Yemen Invisible

Dubai (AFP) – The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has triggered a diplomatic and public relations crisis for Saudi Arabia, but little may change […]

Natacha Yazbeck

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Suggestive Terrorism:  Trump, Pipe Bomber and the ISIL Technique

Suggestive Terrorism: Trump, Pipe Bomber and the ISIL Technique

The attempted pipe bombings directed at former US president Barack Obama, former vice president Joe Biden, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former attorney General […]

Juan Cole

BDS
Israel to spend $72 mn to convince Europe Boycott over Occupation is "anti-Semitism"

Israel to spend $72 mn to convince Europe Boycott over Occupation is “anti-Semitism”

Text calls on “all political parties to pass a binding resolution rejecting BDS activities as fundamentally anti-Semitic”.

Middle East Monitor

Democracy
De Niro: “There’s Something more powerful than Bombs: Your Vote”

De Niro: “There’s Something more powerful than Bombs: Your Vote”

De Niro has been a frequent critic of Trump

AFP

Qatar
Qatar a Beneficiary of Saudi Khashoggi Debacle

Qatar a Beneficiary of Saudi Khashoggi Debacle

Doha (AFP) – Global diplomatic fallout from the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate may help Qatar in its political stand-off […]

David Harding

Iran
In Major defeat for Trump, Int'l Court of Justice Rules for Iran in Lifting Sanctions

In Major defeat for Trump, Int’l Court of Justice Rules for Iran in Lifting Sanctions

(TeleSur) – Iran brought a complaint to the ICJ on grounds that U.S. President Donald Trump’s sanctions violated the 1955 Treaty of Amity signed between […]

TeleSur

Donald Trump
Far right urging of jailing of Political Rivals linked in History with Bombings

Far right urging of jailing of Political Rivals linked in History with Bombings

The mass right wing parties of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s were led by charismatic leaders who whipped up the hatreds of mobs by […]

Juan Cole

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