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Amnesty: So-Called Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ becoming Smokescreen for continued Israeli Genocide
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Amnesty: So-Called Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ becoming Smokescreen for continued Israeli Genocide

Juan Cole

Israeli officials responsible for orchestrating, overseeing and materially committing genocide remain in power

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How Turkiye Plans to use the Spotlight of hosting the next UN Climate Summit

How Turkiye Plans to use the Spotlight of hosting the next UN Climate Summit

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How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian Hedonists

How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian Hedonists

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Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy

Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy

Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza. […]

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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

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Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare

Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Award winning journalist,Trudy Lieberman, a former president of the Association of Health Care Journalists, alerts us that it […]

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How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

By Farinaz Basmechi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa (The Conversation) – Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an […]

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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.”  The […]

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“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

The grimness of the teaching, that life is short is leavened by lighthearted advice to enjoy yourself while you can

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Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Celts, who lived about 3,000 years ago in an area which is now Gaul (France), Ireland, […]

Hugh J. Curran

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Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left

Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left

By Eric Ross | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her […]

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Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown

Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hurricane Melissa is the most devastating storm to hit Jamaica in recorded history, CNN reports. It rapidly intensified over the […]

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