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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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

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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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