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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Self-Radicalized?  US ‘Moderate’ and Far Right at CPAC

Self-Radicalized? US ‘Moderate’ and Far Right at CPAC

TeleSur | – – Although the so-called “moderate” right wishes to distance itself from the far right, the list of speakers at the CPAC conference […]

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Film about Israeli imprisonment of Palestinians wins top award in Berlin

Film about Israeli imprisonment of Palestinians wins top award in Berlin

IMEMC | – – A film depicting the torture, humiliation and violence experienced by Palestinians imprisoned by Israel won the first ever “Silver Bear” award […]

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Buyers' Remorse:  Americans think Trump is bad at almost Everything

Buyers’ Remorse: Americans think Trump is bad at almost Everything

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The vast majority of Americans in a new Quinnipiac opinion poll do not believe that Donald […]

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Red state rural America is acting on climate change – without calling it climate change

Red state rural America is acting on climate change – without calling it climate change

By Rebecca J. Romsdahl | (The Conversation) | – – President Donald Trump has the environmental community understandably concerned. He and members of his Cabinet […]

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Trump v. Islam

Trump v. Islam

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Trump the businessman is at war with Trump the ideologue over the question of […]

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Is Israel’s Netanyahu running Rings around the inexperienced Trump?

Is Israel’s Netanyahu running Rings around the inexperienced Trump?

By Avi Shlaim | (Via OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Trump is unencumbered by any knowledge of the Palestinians, their history, their politics, or their […]

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Trump endangering rest of Us to hunt down the Law-Abiding Undocumented

Trump endangering rest of Us to hunt down the Law-Abiding Undocumented

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Gen. John Kelly’s ramping up of deportation measures against undocumented residents of the US, in accordance […]

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Under Saudi Bombardment, 33% of Yemenis Food Insecure

Under Saudi Bombardment, 33% of Yemenis Food Insecure

TeleSur | – – The U.N. says almost half a million children in the country are at risk of death from famine as Saudi Arabia’s […]

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