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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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Anti-Zionism
Voices for Justice in Palestine

Voices for Justice in Palestine

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – They gather every Saturday morning on the Greenfield Common, Massachusetts from 11-Noon.  Their signs and banners read: […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Artificial Intelligence
Israel’s AI-Powered Genocide

Israel’s AI-Powered Genocide

by Sarmad Ishfaq We are witnessing the genocide of the Palestinians based on algorithms and machine learning; a system of apartheid in the Israeli-occupied West […]

Middle East Monitor

Colonialism
How rich Philanthropists exert undue Influence over pro-Palestinian Activism at Universities

How rich Philanthropists exert undue Influence over pro-Palestinian Activism at Universities

By Fahad Ahmad, Toronto Metropolitan University qne Adam Saifer, University of British Columbia | – (The Conversation) On university campuses across North America, a new […]

The Conversation

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Bernie Sanders is right to Boycott "War Criminal" Netanyahu's address to Congress, but the PM isn't the first War Criminal to be Invited

Bernie Sanders is right to Boycott “War Criminal” Netanyahu’s address to Congress, but the PM isn’t the first War Criminal to be Invited

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Bernie Sanders has been scathing about the invitation issued by Congressional leaders to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to […]

Juan Cole

Courts
Red Flags over the Supreme Court

Red Flags over the Supreme Court

By Peter Montgomery | ( Otherwords.org ) – America’s highest court is supposed to be impartial — especially when it comes to our elections and […]

OtherWords

Militarization
How the Military-Industrial Complex is Killing us All

How the Military-Industrial Complex is Killing us All

By By David Vine and Theresa (Isa) Arriola | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs […]

Tomdispatch

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Far Right Totalitarians in Israeli Cabinet threaten to Crash the Government if it Agrees to Biden's Gaza Plan

Far Right Totalitarians in Israeli Cabinet threaten to Crash the Government if it Agrees to Biden’s Gaza Plan

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that extremist government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich continue to put pressure on […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The Delhi Heatwave is Testing the Limits of Human Endurance, in an Omen for us All

The Delhi Heatwave is Testing the Limits of Human Endurance, in an Omen for us All

By Liz Hanna, Australian National University | – (The Conversation) – Delhi is reeling from the most extreme heatwave India has ever seen. While the […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
A Bloody Ratio: Israel's Tent Camp Massacre shows futility of its Rafah Campaign

A Bloody Ratio: Israel’s Tent Camp Massacre shows futility of its Rafah Campaign

by Binoy Kampmark It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces […]

Middle East Monitor

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