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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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Turkey's Erdoğan threatens to intervene in Israel

Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens to intervene in Israel

( Globalvoices.org ) – A verbal spat between Turkey and Israel highlighted the country’s complicated relationship with Israel and Palestine and drew attention to Turkish […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Donald Trump
The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans

The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans

By Alec MacGillis | – ( ProPublica ) – In January 2023, a group of about 15 people gathered for three days at the Heritage […]

ProPublica

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Using US Tech Giants' "Cloud" and A.I., Israel Bombed Schools, killing 24 Children, to hit 2 "Saboteurs"

Using US Tech Giants’ “Cloud” and A.I., Israel Bombed Schools, killing 24 Children, to hit 2 “Saboteurs”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports, “In Deir al Balah, Gaza, an Israeli strike hit a tent camp for […]

Juan Cole

Islam-hatred
As Far Right Islamophobic Mobs riot in the UK, Online Merchants of Hate work their Audiences

As Far Right Islamophobic Mobs riot in the UK, Online Merchants of Hate work their Audiences

By Richard Fern, Swansea University | – The frightening scenes of far-right extremists clashing with police and even rioting in British towns and cities in […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Just how Traumatizing will Election 2024 Be?

Just how Traumatizing will Election 2024 Be?

( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine my surprise when, nearly eight months ago, commenting on the state of the country as it approached the 2024 presidential election, […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Iran condemns "medieval barbarity" of Israel's Sde Teiman Camp, insists on Right to Deter further Aggression

Iran condemns “medieval barbarity” of Israel’s Sde Teiman Camp, insists on Right to Deter further Aggression

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iranian spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanani, condemned Israel on Saturday on “X” for practicing “medieval forms of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Lawmakers try to Block Torture Prosecutions

Israeli Lawmakers try to Block Torture Prosecutions

By Bill Van Esveld, Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division | – A standoff at Israel’s Sde Teiman military base this week has thrown longstanding […]

Human Rights Watch

Africa
German Colonialism in Africa left Hundreds of Thousands Dead: Its Chilling Afterlife

German Colonialism in Africa left Hundreds of Thousands Dead: Its Chilling Afterlife

By Henning Melber, University of Pretoria | – (The Conversation) – Germany was a significant – and often brutal – colonial power in Africa. But […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
Israeli Total War infects 40,000 with Hepatitis A, threatens Polio Epidemic, Recalling Past Experiments on Human Subjects

Israeli Total War infects 40,000 with Hepatitis A, threatens Polio Epidemic, Recalling Past Experiments on Human Subjects

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a 2011 exposé , Mike Stobbe of NBC news revealed a long history of federal physicians from the US […]

Juan Cole

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