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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Erdoğan’s streak came to a screeching Halt as Turkey’s economy pays the price for Years of Policy Mistakes

Erdoğan’s streak came to a screeching Halt as Turkey’s economy pays the price for Years of Policy Mistakes

By Gulcin Ozkan, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – For many years, it wasn’t the economy that determined voting behaviour in Turkey. The […]

The Conversation

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Was Israel's Strike on Iranian Embassy in Damascus an attempt to draw the US into the War?

Was Israel’s Strike on Iranian Embassy in Damascus an attempt to draw the US into the War?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s airstrikes Monday on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, which killed a senior general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps […]

Juan Cole

Africa
Epic Fail: The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack up its War and Go Home

Epic Fail: The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack up its War and Go Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took […]

Nick Turse

Anti-intellectualism
Texas’ Gov. Abbott:  Stop Weaponizing “Antisemitism” to Harass Campus Critics of Israeli Policy

Texas’ Gov. Abbott: Stop Weaponizing “Antisemitism” to Harass Campus Critics of Israeli Policy

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott regarding Executive Order GA-44 2 April 2024   […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Chef José Andrés' World Central Kitchen Accuses Israel of "Targeted Attack" on 7 of its Aid Workers

Chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen Accuses Israel of “Targeted Attack” on 7 of its Aid Workers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli fighter-jets routinely bomb dense urban areas, sometimes with massive bombs, in ways that President Joe Biden characterized as “indiscriminate.” […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
Secular Opposition Crushes pro-Islam AKP in Turkey's Local Elections

Secular Opposition Crushes pro-Islam AKP in Turkey’s Local Elections

( Globalvoices.org ) – Turkey’s local elections which took place on March 31, will go down in history as one of its most surprising. Turkey’s […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Anti-intellectualism
Protest of Columbia University’s Treatment of Dr. Kayum Ahmed over Teaching Palestine

Protest of Columbia University’s Treatment of Dr. Kayum Ahmed over Teaching Palestine

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Linda P. Fried Dean, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University lpfried@columbia.edu et al. […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Democratic Party
Poll: Most Americans don’t agree with Biden Administration’s support for Israel’s Military Campaign

Poll: Most Americans don’t agree with Biden Administration’s support for Israel’s Military Campaign

East Lansing, MI (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – For 176 days, the world has borne witness to Israel’s use of disproportionate, and arguably, genocidal […]

Nazita Lajevardi

Food Insecurity
Starvation in Gaza: The World Court's Latest Intervention

Starvation in Gaza: The World Court’s Latest Intervention

( Middle East Monitor ) – Rarely has the International Court of Justice (ICJ) been so constantly exercised by one topic during such a short […]

Middle East Monitor

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