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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Climate Crisis sees rise in illegal Water Markets in the Middle East

Climate Crisis sees rise in illegal Water Markets in the Middle East

By Christian Klassert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ and Samer Talozi, Jordan University for Science and Technology | – (The Conversation) – In Jordan’s cities, […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Campaign against Gaza may Kill 186,000 or More -- 8% of Population:  The Lancet

Israeli Campaign against Gaza may Kill 186,000 or More — 8% of Population: The Lancet

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf, The Lancet calculate that 186,000 or more people may be killed* by the […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Sudan is now Confronting its most severe Food Security Crisis on Record

Sudan is now Confronting its most severe Food Security Crisis on Record

By Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Khalid Siddig, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | – (The Conversation) – After 14 […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
War and Famine: America’s War on Terror and the Wasting of our Democracy

War and Famine: America’s War on Terror and the Wasting of our Democracy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Many war stories end with hunger wreaking havoc on significant portions of a population. In Christian theology, the Biblical “four horses […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Bashar al-Assad
Turkey-Syria Normalization Bid stirs Violent unrest in both Countries

Turkey-Syria Normalization Bid stirs Violent unrest in both Countries

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently said “there is no reason” not to pursue normalization of diplomatic ties […]

Volkan Isbasaran

Israel/ Palestine
The New Desaparecidos: Israel and the Enforced Disappearance of Palestinians from Gaza

The New Desaparecidos: Israel and the Enforced Disappearance of Palestinians from Gaza

By Inaam Adib Barkouk Israel has used all means to target Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, in addition to internationally prohibited weapons that wiped […]

Middle East Monitor

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Global Heating: Alaska's Top-Heavy Glaciers are Melting, approaching an Irreversible Tipping Point

Global Heating: Alaska’s Top-Heavy Glaciers are Melting, approaching an Irreversible Tipping Point

By Bethan Davies, Newcastle University | – (The Conversation) – The melting of one of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated and could soon reach […]

The Conversation

Democracy
Britain's Labour beat the Right, but Must hasten to Win Public Trust and heal Rift with own Left

Britain’s Labour beat the Right, but Must hasten to Win Public Trust and heal Rift with own Left

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Britain’s latest General Election held on 4th July was nothing short of a major political earthquake that put […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Donald Trump
Netanyahu and his bet on Trump

Netanyahu and his bet on Trump

By Antoine Shalhat ( Middle East Monitor ) – It seems that the repercussions of the debate recently held between current US President Joe Biden […]

Middle East Monitor

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