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It is Genocide:  Omer Bartov Interview
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It is Genocide: Omer Bartov Interview

Fariba Amini

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Fariba Amini writes: Omer Bartov recently wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times in which […]

US Green Beret: Israeli “Hunger Games in Gaza” (h/t Sen. Chris Van Hollen)

US Green Beret: Israeli “Hunger Games in Gaza” (h/t Sen. Chris Van Hollen)

07/30/2025 By Juan Cole

Tariff Man: Bringing back the Worst Excesses of the Gilded Age

Tariff Man: Bringing back the Worst Excesses of the Gilded Age

07/30/2025 By Alfred W. McCoy

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Tens of Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate against Netanyahu, Demand Hostage Exchange Deal, New Elections

Tens of Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate against Netanyahu, Demand Hostage Exchange Deal, New Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that tens of thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday night against the government of Prime […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Why Scapegoating the UN Relief and Works Agency -- Which Helps Palestinians -- Must Stop

Why Scapegoating the UN Relief and Works Agency — Which Helps Palestinians — Must Stop

( Al-Shabakah ) – Shatha Abdulsamad· Informed by the understanding that Palestinian displacement is a combined effect of the UN Partition Plan of 1947 and […]

Al-Shabaka

Climate Crisis
New EPA Rules will force Fossil Fuel Power Plants to cut Pollution

New EPA Rules will force Fossil Fuel Power Plants to cut Pollution

By: Robert Zullo – ( Michigan Advance ) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting […]

Michigan Advance

Children
Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF, said this week that of the 600,000 children in Rafah, southern Gaza, all of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle - So let's put a Cap on It

Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle – So let’s put a Cap on It

By Jack Marley, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – Plastic pollution and climate change have common culprits – and similar solutions. The penultimate round […]

The Conversation

Dissent
Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68

Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68

Mark Rudd ( Waging Nonviolence ) – What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime? Turn away and allow oneself to be […]

Waging Nonviolence

Donald Trump
Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump

Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Going back to the late nineteenth century, Zionism has had a complex and storied history, and there have been many […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy

Ukraine, Israel, and the Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The process of crafting congressional legislation is often likened to sausage-making. Best not to look behind the scenes […]

John Feffer

Education
The Right is weaponizing Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's Atrocities and Smear Campus Protests

The Right is weaponizing Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s Atrocities and Smear Campus Protests

By Helen Benedict ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many […]

Tomdispatch

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