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Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?
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Why is Israel Playing Spoiler in the New Syria?

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last week, Israel launched the latest of some 300 raids into Syria in the past few months. Some […]

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3

“Those who Stood before the Tavern” – FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3

08/09/2025 By Juan Cole

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

08/09/2025 By The Conversation

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The Sacklers may not Get away with Opioid Grift after all, as SCOTUS strikes Down Bankruptcy Settlement

The Sacklers may not Get away with Opioid Grift after all, as SCOTUS strikes Down Bankruptcy Settlement

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Allen Frances, M.D., distinguished former chair of psychiatry at Duke University school of medicine wrote in a […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

How Israel uses Starvation to Subdue the Palestinians

( Middle East Monitor ) – Humanitarian aid should never be politicised though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining […]

Ramzy Baroud

Inequality
SCOTUS to Homeless: Stay Awake or be Arrested

SCOTUS to Homeless: Stay Awake or be Arrested

By Clare Pastore, University of Southern California | – (The Conversation) – The Supreme Court has ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party
AIPAC's Destructive Reach in American Politics: How it made an Example of Rep. Jamal Bowman

AIPAC’s Destructive Reach in American Politics: How it made an Example of Rep. Jamal Bowman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Rep. Jamal Bowman’s loss to George Latimer for the 16th District of New York in the Democratic […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Displaced and Refugees
Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations

Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations

Hasan Khatib, University of Wisconsin-Madison | – As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire […]

The Conversation

Anti-Zionism
Liberal Zionism and the woke facade of Israeli genocide

Liberal Zionism and the woke facade of Israeli genocide

( The New Arab ) – Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian […]

Yoav Litvin

Donald Trump
Trump called Biden a "Weak Palestinian:" is the P-word the new N-Word?

Trump called Biden a “Weak Palestinian:” is the P-word the new N-Word?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – During CNN’s sh*tshow — I mean, debate — Trump at one point insisted that Biden let the Israelis “go” at […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Opposing a Bill Proposed by National Union of Israel Students to make Criticizing Israeli Gov't a Firing Offense

Opposing a Bill Proposed by National Union of Israel Students to make Criticizing Israeli Gov’t a Firing Offense

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | = Elhanan Fellheimer Chairman, National Union of Israeli Students Prof. Arie Zaban President of Bar-Ilan […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Donald Trump
An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy

An Election in Danger? The Fragile State of American Democracy

By Julian Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Officials and election experts are now struggling in a big-time way. How, they wonder, […]

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