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Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket
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Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Gangster president Trump and his Justice Department lackeys are engaged in a coordinated cover-up of his entanglements with […]

In Syria, Women are Bearing the Brunt of Climate Breakdown

In Syria, Women are Bearing the Brunt of Climate Breakdown

08/04/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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

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Hizbullah
Israel's Booby-Trapped Pagers wound Thousands, many Innocent Lebanese Civilians, Contravening Int'l Law

Israel’s Booby-Trapped Pagers wound Thousands, many Innocent Lebanese Civilians, Contravening Int’l Law

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Thousands of pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 17, 2024, resulting in at least 12 […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
How the Israeli Settlers Movement shaped Modern Israel

How the Israeli Settlers Movement shaped Modern Israel

By Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell | – (The Conversation) – The increase in settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank over the past year […]

The Conversation

Egypt
The Sphinx and the Sultan: How Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Caused Washington’s Near East Policy to Crash and Burn

The Sphinx and the Sultan: How Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Caused Washington’s Near East Policy to Crash and Burn

I’m reprinting here my most recent Tomdispatch essay for The Nation Institute, on the possible emergence of a centrist Sunni bloc that aims to offset […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s True Objectives in Gaza and why it will Fail

Israel’s True Objectives in Gaza and why it will Fail

( Middle East Monitor ) – Never in its history of war and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan […]

Ramzy Baroud

BRICS
Why is maverick NATO member Turkey flirting with the BRICS Bloc?

Why is maverick NATO member Turkey flirting with the BRICS Bloc?

By Jorge Heine, Boston University | – (The Conversation) – Turkey tends to march to its own drum in international affairs. Take the United Nations […]

The Conversation

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25% of 95K Injuries inflicted by Israel in Gaza are "Life-Changing;" Require Medical Care that Israelis Destroyed

25% of 95K Injuries inflicted by Israel in Gaza are “Life-Changing;” Require Medical Care that Israelis Destroyed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, Israeli bombardments killed 38 people in Gaza. Based on past experience, we can expect a majority of those […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump’s anti-Abortion Drive will Take Lives: Lessons from Ireland on why ‘Reasons-based’ access to Abortion doesn’t Work

Trump’s anti-Abortion Drive will Take Lives: Lessons from Ireland on why ‘Reasons-based’ access to Abortion doesn’t Work

By Seána Glennon, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa< | -

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?

Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?

( Code Pink ) – On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Trump-Vance are doing to Haitians what the Israeli Right has done to Palestinians — Demonize a Whole People

Trump-Vance are doing to Haitians what the Israeli Right has done to Palestinians — Demonize a Whole People

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vile and disgusting tactic of J.D. Vance and Don Trump of spreading false, racist charges against Haitians of eating […]

Juan Cole

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