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Israel’s Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout
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Israel’s Netanyahu addresses Empty UN Chamber with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even the tiniest detail is litigated in newspaper headlines when it comes to the Israeli government. Many news outlets reported […]

Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

09/27/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People

Rivers are heating up faster than the Air − that’s a Problem for aquatic Life and People

09/27/2025 By The Conversation

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Authoritarianism
Turkey's Snap Elections:  Erdoğan is forcing his people to take sides

Turkey’s Snap Elections: Erdoğan is forcing his people to take sides

By Bahar Baser and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk | (The Conversation) | – – Ever since the June 2015 elections, which thwarted the proposed presidential system […]

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Apartheid
Major World Aid Groups & 150,000 people demand end to Israel's Gaza blockade

Major World Aid Groups & 150,000 people demand end to Israel’s Gaza blockade

Oxfam | (Press Release) – – Oxfam Press Release : More than 150,000 people from around the world have today joined 35 aid, faith, development […]

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Climate Change
Water Being Used as Weapon of War in Syrian Conflict, UN Warns

Water Being Used as Weapon of War in Syrian Conflict, UN Warns

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer. | (Commondreams.org) | – – Compounded by scorching heat wave, Syrians are experiencing ‘deliberate’ water cut-offs, often for weeks at […]

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Defending Natalie Portman on Holocaust:  Sometimes it can be subverted to fear-mongering

Defending Natalie Portman on Holocaust: Sometimes it can be subverted to fear-mongering

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Actress Natalie Portman has kicked off a controversy with remarks about how to remember the Nazi […]

Juan Cole

journalism
Jorge Ramos explains his ejection from Trump's press conference

Jorge Ramos explains his ejection from Trump’s press conference

Jorge Ramos | (Univision Noticias) (Video Interview)| – – Univision Noticias: “Jorge Ramos explains what happened after he was escorted out of Trump’s press conference”

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Syria
ISIL's Assault on History: Blows Up 1st Century Baal Shamin Temple in Palmyra

ISIL’s Assault on History: Blows Up 1st Century Baal Shamin Temple in Palmyra

RFE / RL | – – Gunmen from the Islamic State (IS) militant group have blown up a first century A.D. temple in the ancient […]

Juan Cole

National Security State
Jeb Bush’s Torquemada Platform (Political Cartoon)

Jeb Bush’s Torquemada Platform (Political Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol | (Jamiol’s World) Via Jamiol’s World

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Coal
Coal Industry Collapsing in Appalachia, leaving behind Blighted Landscape

Coal Industry Collapsing in Appalachia, leaving behind Blighted Landscape

By Laura Gottesdiener. | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In Appalachia, explosions have leveled the mountain tops into perfect race tracks for Ryan Hensley’s all-terrain vehicle […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
GOP Islamophobia:  Scott Walker thinks there are only “a Handful” of “Reasonable Muslims”

GOP Islamophobia: Scott Walker thinks there are only “a Handful” of “Reasonable Muslims”

Via Bridge Project Tracking islamophobia

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