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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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200 UN Teams Begin Drive to immunize 600K Palestinian Children in Gaza, Warn that Ceasefire is Essential

200 UN Teams Begin Drive to immunize 600K Palestinian Children in Gaza, Warn that Ceasefire is Essential

UN News reports that the initial stage of a UN-led polio immunization initiative commenced Sunday in the central regions of Gaza. The undertaking aims to […]

Juan Cole

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India outstrips Japan in Solar Energy

India outstrips Japan in Solar Energy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The energy consultancy Ember reports that the growth in solar production in India was 5.9% in 2023, which outstripped the […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Tech Giants criticized for Silencing Pro-Palestinian Narratives

Tech Giants criticized for Silencing Pro-Palestinian Narratives

Written byWalid El Houri Read this post in Malagasy, українська, عربي, English, Ελληνικά ( Globalvoices.org ) – The ongoing suppression of Palestinian voices on social […]

Global Voices

Iran
Is Iran’s anti-Israel and -American Rhetoric all Bark and no Bite?

Is Iran’s anti-Israel and -American Rhetoric all Bark and no Bite?

(The Conversation) – On August 27, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, told the newly elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and […]

Shahram Akbarzadeh

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Israeli PM Netanyahu says Recovering Hostages not a Priority, Occupies Philadelphi Corridor Instead

Israeli PM Netanyahu says Recovering Hostages not a Priority, Occupies Philadelphi Corridor Instead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bilal Daher of the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on Thursday evening’s knock-down, drag-out fight between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Juan Cole

Lebanon
Lebanon has made Survival an Art Form, after decades of War and Unrest

Lebanon has made Survival an Art Form, after decades of War and Unrest

By Ian Parmeter, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – I first visited Lebanon in 1978, three years into the civil war and six […]

The Conversation

censorship
Rebuking New York University for trying to Outlaw Criticism of Israel by Conflating Zionism with Judaism

Rebuking New York University for trying to Outlaw Criticism of Israel by Conflating Zionism with Judaism

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Linda G. Mills President, New York University linda.mills@nyu.edu   Georgina Dopico Provost, New York […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Muslims’ favorability Rating Falls this Year among Americans, as Gaza casts a Shadow and Biden spreads Misinformation

Muslims’ favorability Rating Falls this Year among Americans, as Gaza casts a Shadow and Biden spreads Misinformation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The University of Maryland issued a report this summer on a Critical Issues Poll that found an alarming rise in […]

Juan Cole

Israel
“Wipe it off the Face of the Earth!”  Israel’s War on the United Nations and International Law

“Wipe it off the Face of the Earth!” Israel’s War on the United Nations and International Law

( Middle East Monitor ) – Departing Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has clearly had an unpleasant experience at the world’s largest […]

Ramzy Baroud

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