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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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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

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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

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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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Bigger than Dobbs: The War on Women is a War on Democracy

Bigger than Dobbs: The War on Women is a War on Democracy

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 2018, the US National Sexual Violence Resource Center published that 81% of women reported experiencing some […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel Lobbies
US an "Open Field" for Manipulation by Israeli Propaganda: Mass Consciousness Activities

US an “Open Field” for Manipulation by Israeli Propaganda: Mass Consciousness Activities

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has long relied on its much-vaunted hasbara — propaganda — to obscure the […]

Middle East Monitor

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How Drones form part of Hezbollah's deterrence Strategy against Israel

How Drones form part of Hezbollah’s deterrence Strategy against Israel

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – (The Conversation) – The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah recently released videos showing footage from one of […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann […]

Dan Dinello

Europe
Europe: The Onslaught of the Far Right

Europe: The Onslaught of the Far Right

Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – After the results of the elections to the European Union parliament were announced on the night of June 9, […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Shortening the Kill Chain: Silicon Valley aims to turn our World into an AI Wargame

Shortening the Kill Chain: Silicon Valley aims to turn our World into an AI Wargame

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Venture capital and military startup firms in Silicon Valley have begun aggressively selling a version of automated warfare that will deeply […]

William D. Hartung

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