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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

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Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring News Out of Gaza

Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring News Out of Gaza

A conversation between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Republican senator offered an “incredible historical document” showing how the U.S. views its role in […]

Common Dreams

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Media Coverage of Campus Protests focuses on Spectacle, rather than Substance

Media Coverage of Campus Protests focuses on Spectacle, rather than Substance

By Danielle K. Brown, Michigan State University | – Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For […]

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Israel Bans Al Jazeera Journalists, Network, Joining Syria and Iran as Repressive Regime

Israel Bans Al Jazeera Journalists, Network, Joining Syria and Iran as Repressive Regime

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Committee to Protect Journalists on Sunday condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to ban the Al Jazeera news network in […]

Juan Cole

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Israeli Violations against Journalists in Palestinian West Bank Multiply

Israeli Violations against Journalists in Palestinian West Bank Multiply

Written by Natacha Danon More than 100 journalists in Gaza have been killed by Israel since it launched its deadly war on the strip, following […]

Global Voices

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Why are U.S. Sanctions against Iran's Oil Exports Ineffective?

Why are U.S. Sanctions against Iran’s Oil Exports Ineffective?

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. But restrictions imposed by the United States […]

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Tens of Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate against Netanyahu, Demand Hostage Exchange Deal, New Elections

Tens of Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate against Netanyahu, Demand Hostage Exchange Deal, New Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that tens of thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday night against the government of Prime […]

Juan Cole

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Why Scapegoating the UN Relief and Works Agency -- Which Helps Palestinians -- Must Stop

Why Scapegoating the UN Relief and Works Agency — Which Helps Palestinians — Must Stop

( Al-Shabakah ) – Shatha Abdulsamad· Informed by the understanding that Palestinian displacement is a combined effect of the UN Partition Plan of 1947 and […]

Al-Shabaka

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New EPA Rules will force Fossil Fuel Power Plants to cut Pollution

New EPA Rules will force Fossil Fuel Power Plants to cut Pollution

By: Robert Zullo – ( Michigan Advance ) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting […]

Michigan Advance

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Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF, said this week that of the 600,000 children in Rafah, southern Gaza, all of […]

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