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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope
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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope

Richard Penaskovic

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It’s not surprising that Pope Leo XIV took the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII […]

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

05/21/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

Trump isn’t even Trying to Hide the Racism Anymore

05/21/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

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Islam-hatred
Did Muslim-Americans lose the New Hampshire GOP Primary?

Did Muslim-Americans lose the New Hampshire GOP Primary?

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “This is what the Republican presidential candidates said about Muslims in their most recent debate.” AJ+: “The […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Did Bashar al-Assad win New Hampshire?  Trump & Sanders Mideast Policies

Did Bashar al-Assad win New Hampshire? Trump & Sanders Mideast Policies

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders won big in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Caution is in order, […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Failed Syria Talks raise specter of new Refugee wave, Misery in Mideast, Europe

Failed Syria Talks raise specter of new Refugee wave, Misery in Mideast, Europe

By Alpaslan Ozerdem | (The Conversation | – – The Syrian civil war and the refugee crisis it has caused is the greatest humanitarian disaster […]

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Arab Americans
Kahlil Gibran: “Lazarus & His Beloved”

Kahlil Gibran: “Lazarus & His Beloved”

Kahlil Gibran | (New York Public Library) \ – – New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theater Production Photograph File Genre: Photograph [of Tableau Vivant] […]

Juan Cole

Pollution
Not just the Children of Flint:  Has Industrial Society Poisoned Us?

Not just the Children of Flint: Has Industrial Society Poisoned Us?

By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – “I know if I was a parent up there, I would be beside […]

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Iraq
The Evil Genie U.S. Let Out of Bottle in Iraq Continues His Rampage

The Evil Genie U.S. Let Out of Bottle in Iraq Continues His Rampage

By Russ Wellen | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – As time passes, whatever responsibility Americans took for atrocities in Iraq, which are […]

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Erdogan Threatened Europe with Refugees, now Demanding US abandon Syrian Kurds

Erdogan Threatened Europe with Refugees, now Demanding US abandon Syrian Kurds

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports that Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan allegedly bullied European leaders and threatened to drown Europe […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Can Hillary Close Gender Gap?  Young Women for Bernie in NH

Can Hillary Close Gender Gap? Young Women for Bernie in NH

Lester Holt | (NBC News video report) | – – “Hillary Clinton is trailing far behind Bernie Sanders amongst young women — a paradigm that […]

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Fossil Fuels
Oil Dictator Dominos

Oil Dictator Dominos

By Bill Emmott | Project Syndicate | – – LONDON – Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since […]

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