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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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How Likely are the GOP Presidential Candidates Top 10 to drag us into War?

How Likely are the GOP Presidential Candidates Top 10 to drag us into War?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Fox Cable News announced its pick for the 10 Republican presidential candidates it will allow in […]

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Iran
Iran Moves To Silence criticism of Nuclear Deal by Hard Line Media

Iran Moves To Silence criticism of Nuclear Deal by Hard Line Media

By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Iran’s state media watchdog has suspended a hard-line publication and warned two other like-minded outlets for […]

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Japan
How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex

How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik | (Author, Big Science) | – – This summer — August 6 and 9, to be precise — marks the 70th anniversary […]

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Environment
Why Israelis have cut down 800,000 Palestinian Olive Trees

Why Israelis have cut down 800,000 Palestinian Olive Trees

Text by Elle Kurancid, photos by Bryony Dunne | (Jadaliyya) | – – Olive tree felling is a longtime strategy of Israel’s occupation regime in […]

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Foreign Policy
Support for Iran Nuclear Deal:  L. A. Jews for Peace Statement

Support for Iran Nuclear Deal: L. A. Jews for Peace Statement

L.A. Jews for Peace | The agreement negotiated between the P5+1 (United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, Germany, and the European Union) and Iran […]

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Acidification of Oceans
Major Indirect Benefits of Obama's Climate Plan that could save the World

Major Indirect Benefits of Obama’s Climate Plan that could save the World

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama spoke on Monday on his plan to use the Environmental Protection Agency to pressure […]

Juan Cole

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria

Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria

Russia Today | (Video Report) | – – Editorial note: Russia Today is an organ of the Russian government, so this report is not independent, […]

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Israel
Pic of the Day: Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from stone-throwers

Pic of the Day: Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from stone-throwers

Striking photo of Palestinians shielding Israeli policewoman from stones thrown by settlers. https://t.co/gburzyw8jP pic.twitter.com/8N6hDqgaFl — Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) August 2, 2015 N.B. A reader wrote […]

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Apartheid
Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time

By: Anna Kokko | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – ANATA (Ma’an) — In the northeastern corner of the Palestinian village of Anata, between the […]

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