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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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Israel/ Palestine
Is Israel’s Far Right Wing Government Prolonging the Gaza Genocide as a Smokescreen for annexing the West Bank?

Is Israel’s Far Right Wing Government Prolonging the Gaza Genocide as a Smokescreen for annexing the West Bank?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Promises of “absolute victory” in Gaza are nothing but “gibberish”, according to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Gallant’s comments […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
The overshoot Myth: you can’t keep burning Fossil Fuels and expect Scientists of the Future to get us back to 1.5°C

The overshoot Myth: you can’t keep burning Fossil Fuels and expect Scientists of the Future to get us back to 1.5°C

By James Dyke, University of Exeter; Robert Watson, University of East Anglia and Wolfgang Knorr, Lund University | – The Conversation – Record breaking fossil […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
There’s only One Issue in the 2024 Election: The Survival of a Habitable Earth

There’s only One Issue in the 2024 Election: The Survival of a Habitable Earth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In mid-July, Nature Climate Change published a global survey of over 9,000 scientists. Its findings should be like the sirens […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
The Kurdish Town of Kocho is the ‘Guernica’ of the 21st Century

The Kurdish Town of Kocho is the ‘Guernica’ of the 21st Century

( Rudaw.net) – A decade ago, on August 3, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) conquered the village of Kocho (Kojo) in the Sinjar (Shingal) area […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Corporations
America the Unwell: The Corporate Greed Threatening our Stability

America the Unwell: The Corporate Greed Threatening our Stability

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing our government doesn’t like doing is challenging the greed of health insurance companies. I can speak with some authority […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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Time to end the "No Daylight" Approach to America's Israel Policy

Time to end the “No Daylight” Approach to America’s Israel Policy

Monterey, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last month’s sad passing of Martin Indyk provides an opportunity to reflect on the US Middle East […]

Glenn E. Robinson

Food Insecurity
Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on Hodeidah Threatens Food, Aid, Electricity Supply

Yemen: Israeli Port Attack Possible War Crime: Retaliatory July Strike on Hodeidah Threatens Food, Aid, Electricity Supply

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the evening of July 20, 2024, were an apparently unlawful indiscriminate or […]

Human Rights Watch

Iran
Remembering a Democratic Iran under Mosaddegh, which the US Overthrew

Remembering a Democratic Iran under Mosaddegh, which the US Overthrew

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment) – When I was very young, in my early teens, I remember that we always had radio Iraq on.  I […]

Fariba Amini

History
Gaza is in Rubble now;  But it was a great Intellectual Hub of the Roman Empire

Gaza is in Rubble now; But it was a great Intellectual Hub of the Roman Empire

By Christopher Mallan, The University of Western Australia | – (The Conversation) – The years 2023 and 2024 will certainly be remembered as some of […]

The Conversation

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