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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line
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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Braga, Portugal and and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the final days of Israel’s eleven-day war with Iran, the targeted […]

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

06/28/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

06/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel's Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game

Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel’s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Playing with the death toll from Israel’s total war on Gaza is not as cruel as actually killing over 35,000 […]

Juan Cole

Arms Sales
The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

The Arsenal of Genocide: the U.S. Weapons That Are Destroying Gaza

( Code Pink ) – On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Dissent
Democracy Versus Autocracy on America’s Campuses

Democracy Versus Autocracy on America’s Campuses

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on […]

William D. Hartung

Authoritarianism
Trump’s Dangerous ‘State of Exception’: SCOTUS must not Allow Presidential Immunity

Trump’s Dangerous ‘State of Exception’: SCOTUS must not Allow Presidential Immunity

Hamburg, NY (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Carl Schmitt wrote in Political Theology (1922) “sovereign is he who decides on the state of the […]

Andrew Kolin

Iran
Gaza War is Bolstering Iran's Standing in the Muslim World as Anti-Americanism Surges

Gaza War is Bolstering Iran’s Standing in the Muslim World as Anti-Americanism Surges

The Conversation) – Iran’s leadership has been a direct beneficiary of the months-long war in Gaza. With every missile that Israel fires on Gaza, every […]

Shahram Akbarzadeh

Israel/ Palestine
Makes me feel Sad for the Rest: Why Palestinian Journalists in Gaza are the Real Journalists

Makes me feel Sad for the Rest: Why Palestinian Journalists in Gaza are the Real Journalists

( Middle East Monitor ) – By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has […]

Ramzy Baroud

Displaced and Refugees
Lindsey “Dr. Strangelove” Graham, Critic of Putin’s Atrocities, Urges Nuking of Gaza’s Civilians

Lindsey “Dr. Strangelove” Graham, Critic of Putin’s Atrocities, Urges Nuking of Gaza’s Civilians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina let his inner genocidal maniac loose on Sunday, defending Israel’s total war on Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel

With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel

By Akshaya Kumar | (@AkshayaSays) | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – This week, United States President Joe Biden announced that his administration has “held up” […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Who will Tell the Story of Regional Climate Disasters when the News Desert Swallows all Local Newspapers?

Who will Tell the Story of Regional Climate Disasters when the News Desert Swallows all Local Newspapers?

By Jane Braxton Little ( Tomdispatch.com When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the […]

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