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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?
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Manufactured Famines in Gaza began almost 2 Decades Ago, So why Haven’t they been Halted?

Dan Steinbock

New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Recently, international media has highlighted the mass famine in Gaza. Yet, there have been effectively three waves […]

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8

09/02/2025 By Juan Cole

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

Symbolism, Exile and Identity explored in Paintings: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

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Wind Power rapidly bringing Clean Electricity to masses in Global South

Wind Power rapidly bringing Clean Electricity to masses in Global South

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Google is in talks to invest in Kenya’s enormous Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, which will […]

Juan Cole

Barack Obama
House Deals Major Blow to Obama's Secret Asian Trade Agenda

House Deals Major Blow to Obama’s Secret Asian Trade Agenda

By Maira Sutton | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The Senate’s Fast Track bill package failed in the House today, following a landslide vote […]

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Children
Yemen: Caught between Saudis & Houthis, Children Pay Price of War

Yemen: Caught between Saudis & Houthis, Children Pay Price of War

By Belkis Wille | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The deliberate targeting of schools has become a flashpoint in the war between Yemen’s […]

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Acidification of Oceans
World's Richest Nations at G7 Imperil Earth by Slow CO2 Reductions

World’s Richest Nations at G7 Imperil Earth by Slow CO2 Reductions

By Lucy Cadena | (Inter Press Service) | – LONDON (IPS) – One of the promises made by the leaders of the world’s seven richest […]

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Dissent
Tens of thousands participate in Israel's annual gay pride Parade

Tens of thousands participate in Israel’s annual gay pride Parade

AFP | (Video Report) | – – “Tens of thousands of people turned out on Friday for Israel’s annual Gay Pride parade, dancing in the […]

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Druze
Al-Qaeda in Syria rubs out 23 members of Druze Religious Minority, Persecutes Others

Al-Qaeda in Syria rubs out 23 members of Druze Religious Minority, Persecutes Others

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The al-Qaeda-linked Support Front has murdered 23 men from a single Druze clan in Qalb Lawzah, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Pharrell Williams to G7:  Green Energy is a Jobs Issue for unemployed Youth

Pharrell Williams to G7: Green Energy is a Jobs Issue for unemployed Youth

Pharrell Williams | (The Guardian Video) | – – “Pharrell WIlliams, the Grammy award-winning artist makes an impassioned plea for green jobs to be put […]

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Iraq
Has US started Arming Iraq's Shiite Militias against ISIL/ Daesh?

Has US started Arming Iraq’s Shiite Militias against ISIL/ Daesh?

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) The hostility between the US and Iraq’s Shiite militias seems to have slowed. One leading militia member even went […]

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Apartheid
Expelled for Life:   A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land

Expelled for Life: A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land

By Jen Marlowe | (Tomdispatch.com) Nasser Nawaj’ah held Laith’s hand as, beside me, they walked down the dirt and pebble path of Old Susya. Nasser […]

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