Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror: From September 11, 2001, to October 7, 2023 (and Beyond)
Maha Hilal ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In a New Yorker piece published five days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, American critic and public […]
US Mideast Experts Condemn Israeli Killing of Gaza Professors, University Administrators
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pmoh@pmo.gov.il . . . Prime Minister, Ministers, […]
Top 3 Pieces of Good Green Energy News this Year
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The climate crisis is the most serious challenge facing our globe, and it is natural to do some doom-scrolling about […]
Legal Bullying Aims to Silence Campus Critics of Israel
Title VI was designed to end discrimination and harassment on campus, but the law can also be misused, as partisans of Israel have done, to […]
Condemning Punitive Measures against Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Bar Ilan University Ben Gurion University of the Negev Hebrew University […]
How Israel’s Starvation of the Gaza Palestinians Has led Biden to try to Starve the Yemenis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The British Royal Air Force and the American Air Force bombed the Yemeni capital of Sanaa again on Tuesday, in […]
How much Influence does Iran have over its Strategic Allies — Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis?
By Sara Harmouch, American University and Nakissa Jahanbani, United States Military Academy West Point | – From attacks by rebels in the Red Sea to […]
Trump’s Far Right Allies Plot to Take over the European Union and Sink its Green Deal
( Tomdispatch.com) – It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential […]
How Israel got Stuck in Orwell’s ‘1984’
Oakland, Ca. (Special for Informed Comment; Feature) – As state paranoia rises in Israel, civil liberties including freedom of the press have taken a huge […]
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