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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials

Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday slapped personal sanctions on United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca […]

Juan Cole

Genocide
Plans to Concentrate Gaza Palestinians in Rafah Camp a Crime against Humanity

Plans to Concentrate Gaza Palestinians in Rafah Camp a Crime against Humanity

By James Sweeney, Lancaster University (The Concversation) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are refusing to implement a government plan to move hundreds of thousands […]

The Conversation

Iran
I Love America: And now it is Bombing my Family in Iran

I Love America: And now it is Bombing my Family in Iran

( Tomdispatch.com ) – We bombed Iran and, despite a temporary cessation of hostilities, it’s likely that President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Tel […]

Nader Terani

Donald Trump
War Criminal Netanyahu nominates Felon Trump for the Nobel Prize

War Criminal Netanyahu nominates Felon Trump for the Nobel Prize

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When I read about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominating convicted felon Donald Trump for the Nobel […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel Lobby
Why Faith Leaders are standing up to the Largest pro-Israel Christian Lobby

Why Faith Leaders are standing up to the Largest pro-Israel Christian Lobby

An interfaith campaign is confronting one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the genocide in Gaza with spiritual resistance. Jaisal […]

Waging Nonviolence

Artificial Intelligence
Grok’s MechaHitler Antisemitic Rant shows how Generative AI can be Weaponized

Grok’s MechaHitler Antisemitic Rant shows how Generative AI can be Weaponized

By James Foulds, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Phil Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Shimei Pan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (The Conversation) […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump

Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump

Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Fourth of July we just observed, nearly 250 years after America’s Declaration of Independence, felt like a […]

Bahman Fozouni

Israel/ Palestine
Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF

Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF

by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – It’s made to order.  First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering.  […]

Middle East Monitor

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Illness and Endless War:  The Unrecognized Ripple Effects of Violence on Health

Illness and Endless War: The Unrecognized Ripple Effects of Violence on Health

( Tomdispatch.com ) – War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken […]

Andrea Mazzarino

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