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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture
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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture

H. Scott Prosterman

Tomer-Yerushalmi freely admits to leaking the video to expose the serious nature of the crimes she was investigating,

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The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

11/06/2025 By Human Rights Watch

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

11/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Genocide or Crimes Against Humanity? Amnesty Int’l’s Verdict on Israel’s War on Gaza

Genocide or Crimes Against Humanity? Amnesty Int’l’s Verdict on Israel’s War on Gaza

By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza and increasingly violent acts against Palestinians […]

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Climate Crisis
Rising Desertification shows we can’t keep Farming with Fossil Fuels; 3/4s of Earth’s Land is Drier

Rising Desertification shows we can’t keep Farming with Fossil Fuels; 3/4s of Earth’s Land is Drier

By Jack Marley, The Conversation Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with […]

The Conversation

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Türkiye reaches 18.7 GW Photovoltaic Capacity, shows how Solar can meet Growing Air Conditioning demand

Türkiye reaches 18.7 GW Photovoltaic Capacity, shows how Solar can meet Growing Air Conditioning demand

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the paradoxes of human-made climate change is that as we heat up the planet by burning gasoline, coal […]

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Syria
The Turkish Role in Assad's Downfall: By supporting the rebels who overthrew the Syrian leader has Ankara bitten off more than it can chew?

The Turkish Role in Assad’s Downfall: By supporting the rebels who overthrew the Syrian leader has Ankara bitten off more than it can chew?

By Philip Balboni | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – After tenaciously holding on to power for more than a decade of war, the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Kurds
The self-governing Kurdish northeast of Syria comes under attack, with Country in Flux

The self-governing Kurdish northeast of Syria comes under attack, with Country in Flux

By Pinar Dinc, Lund University (The Conversation) – After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to […]

The Conversation

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With HTS rule of Syria and Taliban in Afghanistan, did the U.S. lose the "War on Terror"?

With HTS rule of Syria and Taliban in Afghanistan, did the U.S. lose the “War on Terror”?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US policy in the Middle East is a dinosaur-like holdover from two eras, the Cold War and the “Global War […]

Juan Cole

Hizbullah
How Israel’s regional War contributed to the Fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria

How Israel’s regional War contributed to the Fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria

By Daniel L. Douek, McGill University (The Conversation) – When Hamas strategist Yahya Sinwar ordered the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter: Time to Boycott the US?

Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter: Time to Boycott the US?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He’s the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downright nasty. Not only that, […]

John Feffer

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UN Demands immediate Gaza Ceasefire as Israel’s Cabinet of Horrors Continues – 53 Killed, as 65K lack Food, Water, Medicine

UN Demands immediate Gaza Ceasefire as Israel’s Cabinet of Horrors Continues – 53 Killed, as 65K lack Food, Water, Medicine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the Israeli military killed 53 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli Air […]

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