Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – How much are women and girls–half of humanity–valued? When men violate us for sex in prostitution. When […]
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“The Bird is on the Wing”: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:7
Stanza 7 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám talks about how little time we have here on […]
The price of genocide: How US Funding sustains an unraveling Israeli Economy
( Middle East Monitor ) – In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension […]
Risking Regional Chaos: The US-Israeli Plan to End UN Peacekeeping in S. Lebanon
By Vanessa Newby, Monash University and Chiara Ruffa, Sciences Po (The Conversation) – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is seen by many […]
Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]
Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction
By Michelle Hamadache, Macquarie University (The Conversation) Hossein Asgari’s Desolation tells the story of Amin, an Iranian man whose life and family are shattered when […]
From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its […]
More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]
Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)
US Arms Transfers to Israel Are Internationally Wrongful Acts
Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967
By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona (The Conversation) – Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on […]
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