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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line
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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Braga, Portugal and and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the final days of Israel’s eleven-day war with Iran, the targeted […]

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

06/28/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

06/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

By Ludovica Marchi | (LSE: British Politics and Policy) | – – Violence in Myanmar has resulted in more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims leaving the […]

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Coal
Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

By Joshua Sokol | (Mosaic) | – – From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, […]

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Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart's Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)

Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart’s Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)

Bannon sent articles to white extremist leaders for line edits

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Donald Trump
Was Ayatollah Khamenei right about Washington? Trump Reneges

Was Ayatollah Khamenei right about Washington? Trump Reneges

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump appears likely to attempt to derail the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]

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Climate Change
Disrupting Climate Change

Disrupting Climate Change

By Jules Kortenhorst | (Project Syndicate) | – – Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time […]

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Iraq
Iraq: How Saddam Hussein’s Ghost haunts Kurdish Referendum

Iraq: How Saddam Hussein’s Ghost haunts Kurdish Referendum

Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein tried to exterminate the Kurds in Iraq. Now Iraqis angry about […]

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journalism
Getting the Story: Combat Journalists and the Fixers they Depend On

Getting the Story: Combat Journalists and the Fixers they Depend On

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – We were already roaring down the road when the young man called to me over his shoulder. […]

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Colonialism
Colonial Legacy: When Dutch ‘Policing’ Op tried to bring down Indonesian Republic

Colonial Legacy: When Dutch ‘Policing’ Op tried to bring down Indonesian Republic

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | – – (This essay irst appeared in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer) Inexplicable sounds entered our internment camp […]

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Colonialism
How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico

How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico

By Jill Richardson | (Otherwords.org) | – – Wanting federal aid in a natural disaster isn’t wanting “everything done for you.” It’s what we should […]

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