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Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims
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Genetic Study finds Echoes of the Early Modern Ethnic Cleansing of Spain’s Muslims

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A genetic history study of Spain by Gonzalo Oteo-Garcia et al. in Genome Biology eloquently confirms the story of the […]

Siege Politics: Netanyahu’s Crisis-Driven Grip on Power

Siege Politics: Netanyahu’s Crisis-Driven Grip on Power

05/26/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

Starving Babies:  The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power

Starving Babies: The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power

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Will Israel's Gaza Campaign expand to Hezbollah and Lebanon?

Will Israel’s Gaza Campaign expand to Hezbollah and Lebanon?

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – The devastating war in Gaza is now in its sixth month, and the figures are alarming: […]

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"Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds:" Genocide and Ecocide stalk the Earth

“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds:” Genocide and Ecocide stalk the Earth

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only […]

William J. Astore

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Climate Victory: Texas Solar Power Growing so Rapidly, it is Reducing demand for Fossil Gas

Climate Victory: Texas Solar Power Growing so Rapidly, it is Reducing demand for Fossil Gas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The far right Texas legislature, dominated by Republicans in the back pocket of the fossil fuel industry, has done what […]

Juan Cole

Australia
Countries like Australia are  Floating the idea of Recognizing Palestine to push Peace

Countries like Australia are Floating the idea of Recognizing Palestine to push Peace

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra | – Foreign Minister Penny Wong has taken Australian policy a modest step towards embracing recognition of a Palestine state […]

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Anti-intellectualism
Condemning Vanderbilt University’s Suspension of Students Engaged in Peaceful Protest against Gaza Campaign

Condemning Vanderbilt University’s Suspension of Students Engaged in Peaceful Protest against Gaza Campaign

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Daniel Diermeier Chancellor, Vanderbilt University daniel.diermeier@vanderbilt.edu   C. Cybele Raver Provost, Vanderbilt University cybele.raver@vanderbilt.edu […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Displaced and Refugees
Not Enough: Biden decries Netanyahu Strategy as a "Mistake," Mourns WCK dead, Calls for 6-8 Week Pause

Not Enough: Biden decries Netanyahu Strategy as a “Mistake,” Mourns WCK dead, Calls for 6-8 Week Pause

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden granted the Spanish-language cable television channel Univision an interview that aired on Tuesday evening. Biden ranged widely, condemning […]

Juan Cole

Anti-intellectualism
Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza

Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza

  NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 APRIL 2024 Contact: academicsvsscholasticide@gmail.com   Faisal Bhabha, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Heidi Matthews, Osgoode Hall Law […]

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Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Nicaragua Sues Germany at Int'l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a "Genocidal" Israel

Nicaragua Sues Germany at Int’l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a “Genocidal” Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicaragua’s opposition online newspaper, La Prensa , reported Monday that proceedings began at the International Court of Justice in Managua’s […]

Juan Cole

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