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Saudi Arabia in Modern History
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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

08/14/2025 By Global Voices

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

08/14/2025 By The Conversation

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Anti-intellectualism
No President of a Major American University has Deplored the Israeli Destruction of all Gaza Universities

No President of a Major American University has Deplored the Israeli Destruction of all Gaza Universities

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American campuses are being roiled by student and faculty protests against the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, which the International […]

Juan Cole

Artificial Intelligence
Gaza War: Artificial Intelligence is radically changing Targeting Speeds and Scale of Civilian Harm

Gaza War: Artificial Intelligence is radically changing Targeting Speeds and Scale of Civilian Harm

By Lauren Gould, Utrecht University; Linde Arentze, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies; and Marijn Hoijtink, University of Antwerp | – (The Conversation) […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump blew up the Iran Nuclear Deal, unleashing Tehran — Can Biden Fix it?

Trump blew up the Iran Nuclear Deal, unleashing Tehran — Can Biden Fix it?

By Bob Dreyfuss ( Tomdispatch.com ) – One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of […]

Bob Dreyfuss

Apartheid
Israeli Squatter-Settlers in Palestinian West Bank Expanding at Fastest Rate in History, as they attack Indigenous Towns

Israeli Squatter-Settlers in Palestinian West Bank Expanding at Fastest Rate in History, as they attack Indigenous Towns

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – While the world’s eyes have been on Gaza, Palestinian villages in the West Bank have been subjected to […]

Mohammed Samaana

Books
Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction

Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction

Excerpted from Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction Available from City Lights The center of the world, where recorded civilization […]

Jordan Elgrably

Food Insecurity
Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

( Code Pink ) – The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Is Washington's Defense of Israel's War destroying the Edifice of the Liberal International Order?

Is Washington’s Defense of Israel’s War destroying the Edifice of the Liberal International Order?

Eau Clare, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – We are in an age of firsts. The October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel set […]

Ali Abootalebi

Climate Crisis
No, Dubai’s Massive Desert Storm wasn’t Caused by Cloud Seeding; but 2,400 gigatonnes of CO2 is Changing our Climate

No, Dubai’s Massive Desert Storm wasn’t Caused by Cloud Seeding; but 2,400 gigatonnes of CO2 is Changing our Climate

By Richard Washington, University of Oxford | – Some years ago, I found myself making my way up the narrow stairs of a Learjet on […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

( Tomdispatch.com) – Let one old man deal with two others. I turn 80 in July, which makes me just over a year-and-a-half younger than […]

Tom Engelhardt

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