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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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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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