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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crowds demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

08/10/2025 By ProPublica

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

08/10/2025 By The Conversation

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Protesting Israel’s targeted destruction of all Schools and Universities in Gaza

Protesting Israel’s targeted destruction of all Schools and Universities in Gaza

Middle East Studies Association Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | – Dear President Biden, Vice-President Harris, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Immigration
Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants

Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants

( Otherwords.org ) – When my dad moved to southwest Ohio in the early 1970s, the Dayton-Springfield area’s second city was home to over 80,000 […]

Peter Certo

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Woman, Life, Freedom:  Rachel, Shireen, Mahsa and Ayşenur

Woman, Life, Freedom: Rachel, Shireen, Mahsa and Ayşenur

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A few days before the invasion of Iraq by American forces under G.W.  Bush, on March 16, […]

Fariba Amini

Sudan
Sudan is Burning and Foreign Powers are Benefiting – what’s in it for the United Arab Emirates?

Sudan is Burning and Foreign Powers are Benefiting – what’s in it for the United Arab Emirates?

By May Darwich, University of Birmingham | – (The Conversation) – The United Nations has accused foreign players of prolonging the war in Sudan, making […]

The Conversation

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The Armageddon Agenda:  Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the Nuclear Threat

The Armageddon Agenda: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the Nuclear Threat

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have […]

Michael T. Klare

Democratic Party
Harris-Trump was the Worst Smack Down of a Republican Presidential Candidate since Kennedy-Nixon

Harris-Trump was the Worst Smack Down of a Republican Presidential Candidate since Kennedy-Nixon

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Vice-President Kamala Harris held Donald Trump accountable for his record as president, and his promises (actually threats) […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
The Life and Legacy of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi: A Beacon of Hope for Palestine

The Life and Legacy of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi: A Beacon of Hope for Palestine

By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The world of activism was shaken by the tragic news of Aysenur Ezgi […]

Middle East Monitor

United Kingdom
Wind powers a record Summer for Renewable Energy in Britain

Wind powers a record Summer for Renewable Energy in Britain

By Grant Wilson, University of Birmingham; Daniel L. Donaldson, University of Birmingham; and Iain Staffell, Imperial College London | – Great Britain’s electricity system (Northern […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
The Morass of U.S. Middle East Policy was visible in the Harris-Trump Debate

The Morass of U.S. Middle East Policy was visible in the Harris-Trump Debate

ABC provided a transcript of the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. I have some thoughts on the Middle East dimension: On Gaza, Harris […]

Juan Cole

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