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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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Red Lines and Rockets: Reframing the War on Gaza

Red Lines and Rockets: Reframing the War on Gaza

Madison, Wisconsin (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Barely a day after Iran fired drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles westward across the desert skies towards […]

Jennifer Loewenstein

Iran
Israel's Limited Attack on Iran Appears Aimed at De-Escalating Conflict

Israel’s Limited Attack on Iran Appears Aimed at De-Escalating Conflict

By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – Israel had vowed to make Iran pay for Tehran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on April 13. But […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Islam
Learning about Patience and Impatience: Top Three Principles from the Great Sufi Scholar al-Ghazali

Learning about Patience and Impatience: Top Three Principles from the Great Sufi Scholar al-Ghazali

By Liz Bucar, Northeastern University | – From childhood, we are told that patience is a virtue and that good things will come to those […]

The Conversation

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Israel and Iran: Itching for War, Playing with Fire

Israel and Iran: Itching for War, Playing with Fire

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long wanted war with Iran and has all along been trying […]

Fariba Amini

Anti-intellectualism
Expressing Outrage at USC over its Decision to cancel Asna Tabassum’s Valedictory Address at Commencement

Expressing Outrage at USC over its Decision to cancel Asna Tabassum’s Valedictory Address at Commencement

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Carol Folt President, University of Southern California president@usc.edu Andrew Guzman Provost, University of Southern […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Haiti Today, America Tomorrow? When Democracies Die, Mobs Take Over

Haiti Today, America Tomorrow? When Democracies Die, Mobs Take Over

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Haiti has descended into chaos. It’s had no president or parliament — and no elections either –for eight long years. Its […]

John Feffer

Bill of Rights
In Fit of anti-Palestinian Hatred, Congress tries to Outlaw "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free"

In Fit of anti-Palestinian Hatred, Congress tries to Outlaw “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chanting of the phrase “From the river to the […]

Juan Cole

Corruption
SecState Blinken is Squelching Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Units for Killings or Rapes

SecState Blinken is Squelching Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Units for Killings or Rapes

By Brett Murphy | – ( ProPublica ) – A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple […]

ProPublica

Colonialism
Colonialists have long used Starvation as a Tool of Oppression

Colonialists have long used Starvation as a Tool of Oppression

By Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation | – In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we continue our conversation about […]

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