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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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In Anti-Semitic Trope, Trump says Jews will be to Blame if he Loses, calls them “Brutal Killers”

In Anti-Semitic Trope, Trump says Jews will be to Blame if he Loses, calls them “Brutal Killers”

Let’s get this straight: Donald Trump is not “good for the Jews,” nor “good for Israel.” Republicans have done a great PR job in conning […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Hizbullah
Calls for US Arms Embargo as Israel Kills Nearly 500 in Lebanon

Calls for US Arms Embargo as Israel Kills Nearly 500 in Lebanon

By Jessica Corbett | – ( Commondreams.org ) – The ongoing “bloodbath” in Lebanon fueled Monday calls for the United States to cut off weapons […]

Common Dreams

Hizbullah
A weakened Hezbollah is being goaded into all-out Conflict with Israel – the Consequences would be Devastating for All

A weakened Hezbollah is being goaded into all-out Conflict with Israel – the Consequences would be Devastating for All

By Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame | – For almost a year, Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in increasingly provocative cross-border skirmishes as onlookers […]

The Conversation

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Iraqi Shiite Militias Pledge Aid to Lebanese Hezbollah, Target Israel with Cruise Missiles, Drones

Iraqi Shiite Militias Pledge Aid to Lebanese Hezbollah, Target Israel with Cruise Missiles, Drones

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tamim al-Hasan at the al-Mada newspaper in Baghdad reports that at a time when an imminent announcement is expected of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Connecting the Dots between Climate Destruction and its Financial Backers

Connecting the Dots between Climate Destruction and its Financial Backers

By Eve Gutman | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Standing on a mobile stage in a suburban Philadelphia park on July 3, Ugandan human […]

Waging Nonviolence

War
War Forever, Everywhere: Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind

War Forever, Everywhere: Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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Hezbollah Targets Israeli Airbase as Lebanon-Israel Attacks Escalate; Americans told to Flee

Hezbollah Targets Israeli Airbase as Lebanon-Israel Attacks Escalate; Americans told to Flee

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Hezbollah escalated its rocket attacks on northern Israel and Syria’s Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Some […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
A Ceasefire is not Enough in Gaza

A Ceasefire is not Enough in Gaza

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The numbers are clear. The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in November last year resulted in the […]

John Feffer

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Exploding Pagers Operation against Hezbollah was a Highly Illegal Booby Trap

Israel’s Exploding Pagers Operation against Hezbollah was a Highly Illegal Booby Trap

By Mary Ellen O’Connell, University of Notre Dame | – (The Conversation) – The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the […]

The Conversation

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