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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line
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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Braga, Portugal and and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the final days of Israel’s eleven-day war with Iran, the targeted […]

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

06/28/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

06/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Balkans
Desperate Afro-Asian Migrants flee war, famine through risky Balkans on The Road To EU

Desperate Afro-Asian Migrants flee war, famine through risky Balkans on The Road To EU

By Iva Martinovic | (RFE/ RL) | – – These days, the park flanking Belgrade’s bus terminal and the nearby railway station teems with migrants. […]

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Obama: No more US troops to fight Daesh/ ISIL, but more Training

Obama: No more US troops to fight Daesh/ ISIL, but more Training

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama on Monday went for a briefing at the Pentagon on the fight against Daesh […]

Juan Cole

Latinos
Donald Trump Tries To Backpedal But Can’t Stop Saying Racist Things

Donald Trump Tries To Backpedal But Can’t Stop Saying Racist Things

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | — “Donald Trump continues putting his foot in his mouth, Trump retweeted something he probably regrets and […]

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Climate Change
California's Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here's What You Need to Know

California’s Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here’s What You Need to Know

By Abrahm Lustgarten, Lauren Kirchner and Amanda Zamora | (ProPublica) | — Why do I keep hearing about the California drought, if it’s the Colorado […]

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Human Rights
Daesh/ ISIL Marked Women and Children for Death in Syria's Kobani

Daesh/ ISIL Marked Women and Children for Death in Syria’s Kobani

Human Rights Watch | (New York) — Armed militants believed to be members of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, deliberately targeted people they knew […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Security Zones Being Used to Further Expand West Bank Settlements

Security Zones Being Used to Further Expand West Bank Settlements

By IMEMC | – – “Land confiscated from Palestinians for the purpose of security buffer zones around illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank is […]

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Banking
Is Greece's "No" on Debt Referendum another Youth Revolution?

Is Greece’s “No” on Debt Referendum another Youth Revolution?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – During the past 5 years, the old categories of politics– left, right, center or capitalist and […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
To fight Climate Change, we have to Eat Fewer Hamburgers

To fight Climate Change, we have to Eat Fewer Hamburgers

By Dora Marinova and Talia Raphaely | (The Conversation) | – – Climate change is the greatest challenge to human health, according to the recent […]

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Children
Child Labor: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis

Child Labor: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis

By Kanya D’Almeida UNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2015 (IPS) – In a conflict that has claimed over 220,000 lives and injured a further 840,000 people […]

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