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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

08/25/2025 By F. Douglas Stephenson

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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

Hizbullah
Assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders is a Gamble for Benjamin Netanyahu that buys him Time but risks wider Wars

Assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders is a Gamble for Benjamin Netanyahu that buys him Time but risks wider Wars

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin | – (The Conversation) – The missile that struck a building in southern Beirut on Tuesday, killing Hezbollah’s senior […]

The Conversation

Christan Nationalists
Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented | – ( ProPublica; Co-published with Documented ) – A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending […]

ProPublica

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Turkey's Erdogan denounces killing of Haniyeh, blocks Israel at NATO, Boycotts it, and threatens Intervention

Turkey’s Erdogan denounces killing of Haniyeh, blocks Israel at NATO, Boycotts it, and threatens Intervention

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The only Middle Eastern country that has taken significant political and administrative actions to protest Israeli war crimes is Turkey. […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran vows "Harsh" Response to Haniyeh's Killing, But how Likely is all-out War with Israel?

Iran vows “Harsh” Response to Haniyeh’s Killing, But how Likely is all-out War with Israel?

Ali Mamouri, Deakin University | – (The Conversation) – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has vowed to inflict “harsh punishment” on Israel in retaliation […]

The Conversation

nationalism
Reports of the Death of Nationalism are greatly Exaggerated

Reports of the Death of Nationalism are greatly Exaggerated

( Tomdispatch.com ) – They were all buddy-buddy for the cameras, going for a joy ride in a deluxe limo and toasting each other at […]

John Feffer

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Did Netanyahu Rub Out Hamas' Haniyeh to counter the Rise of Kamala Harris and Demands he negotiate with... Haniyeh?

Did Netanyahu Rub Out Hamas’ Haniyeh to counter the Rise of Kamala Harris and Demands he negotiate with… Haniyeh?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s assassination of Hamas civilian Politburo head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was a crime, and we all know from police […]

Juan Cole

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