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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump:  Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?
China

Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump: Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The reports of the past few days are extremely worrying. The acrimonious and open split between President Donald […]

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

06/07/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

06/07/2025 By The Conversation

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Displaced and Refugees
Netherlands Judges Halt Export to Israel of F-35 Parts: "Disproportionate Civilian Casualties including Thousands of Children"

Netherlands Judges Halt Export to Israel of F-35 Parts: “Disproportionate Civilian Casualties including Thousands of Children”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dutch News reports that an appeals court in The Hague, Netherlands, has ruled that the Dutch government must cease sending […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
We Need to Phase out Fossil Fuels Immediately, but Equitably

We Need to Phase out Fossil Fuels Immediately, but Equitably

By Tom Athanasiou | – This essay was originally published in Foreign Policy in Focus Just before the recent climate summit in Dubai, COP28 president […]

Tom Athanasiou

Arab Americans
A Brief History of Dearborn, Michigan - The First Arab-American Majority City in the US

A Brief History of Dearborn, Michigan – The First Arab-American Majority City in the US

By Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn; and Amny Shuraydi, University of Michigan-Dearborn | – (The Conversation) – Dearborn, Michigan, is a center of Arab American […]

The Conversation

Egypt
Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah

Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is being widely reported based on press leaks that the Egyptian government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has privately […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Rafah Displacement Plans Catastrophic, Unlawful (HRW)

Israel: Rafah Displacement Plans Catastrophic, Unlawful (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli army and other officials to submit to the cabinet a […]

Human Rights Watch

censorship
Public Libraries under MAGA Threat: Banning what Matters

Public Libraries under MAGA Threat: Banning what Matters

( Tomdisptach.com) – When my mother died in 2000, I inherited all her books. Sadly, after several moves and downsizings over the decades, her collection […]

Rebecca Gordon

Arab Spring
Why, Despite the Arab Spring and Mass Protests of the 2010s, People Got the Opposite of What they Wanted

Why, Despite the Arab Spring and Mass Protests of the 2010s, People Got the Opposite of What they Wanted

Review of Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (New York: PublicAffairs, 2023). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Iran
Little Room For Negotiation Between Iran And U.S. Amid Middle East Tensions

Little Room For Negotiation Between Iran And U.S. Amid Middle East Tensions

By Michael Scollon ( RFE/RL ) – Like two heavyweight boxers, the United States and Iran circle the ring — flexing their muscles without stepping […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu's Position becoming more Uncertain as he rejects Hamas Deal to end War

Netanyahu’s Position becoming more Uncertain as he rejects Hamas Deal to end War

By Anne Irfan, UCL | – (The Conversation) – The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has rejected a ceasefire plan put forward by Hamas, calling […]

The Conversation

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