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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Militarization
What good is our Nat'l Security State if we're afraid to Leave Home?

What good is our Nat’l Security State if we’re afraid to Leave Home?

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Has there ever been a nation as dedicated to preparing for doomsday as the United […]

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Arab World
Arab Youth Bulge: Could this Generation Explode Again?

Arab Youth Bulge: Could this Generation Explode Again?

By IPS World Desk ROME/AMMAN (IPS) – More than ever before, the Arab region now registers an unprecedented youth population growth while facing huge challenges […]

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Donald Trump
The Real Victims of Trump-Putin Illiberalism:   Women

The Real Victims of Trump-Putin Illiberalism: Women

By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | – – When I first read about the Russian government decriminalizing domestic violence recently, my first thought was: […]

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Books
Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the 'Ministry of Utmost Happiness'

Novelist Arundhati Roy and her mission to inspire in the ‘Ministry of Utmost Happiness’

By Ali Kazimi | (The Conversation) | – – Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over […]

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Donald Trump
Resistance is Fertile

Resistance is Fertile

Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair […]

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Donald Trump
Influence:  Russia just Imitated the Rupert Murdoch/Fox Model

Influence: Russia just Imitated the Rupert Murdoch/Fox Model

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Purloined Letter,” detective C. Auguste Dupin discovers a stolen letter in the […]

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Education
Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP

Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new Pew poll finds that 58% of Republicans now say that colleges and universities have […]

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Israel/ Palestine
New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza

New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza

By IMEMC News | – – Most of the projections for 2020, on the situation in the Gaza Strip, have deteriorated further and faster than […]

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Employment
Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | – – While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the […]

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