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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden's Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on […]

Juan Cole

Children
Gaza: Israel's Imposed Starvation deadly for Children

Gaza: Israel’s Imposed Starvation deadly for Children

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut, April 9, 2024) – Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation […]

Human Rights Watch

Inequality
Tax Day: The America I wish my Taxes paid for

Tax Day: The America I wish my Taxes paid for

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – In June 2023 Amanda Jones, an African American who had recently given birth to her second daughter Miranda, […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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Cracks in Biden's Zionist Wall:  Warren, Powers admit "Genocide, Famine" in Gaza as Israeli Atrocities Continue

Cracks in Biden’s Zionist Wall: Warren, Powers admit “Genocide, Famine” in Gaza as Israeli Atrocities Continue

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Cracks are showing in the Iron Wall of the Biden administration knee-jerk support for the far-right, extremist Israeli government’s total […]

Juan Cole

Artificial Intelligence
Gaza Conflict: Israel using AI to identify Human Targets raises Fears Innocents are Targeted

Gaza Conflict: Israel using AI to identify Human Targets raises Fears Innocents are Targeted

By Elke Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London | – A report by Jerusalem-based investigative journalists published in +972 magazine finds that AI targeting systems […]

The Conversation

Israel
Are the United States and Israel heading toward a Divorce?

Are the United States and Israel heading toward a Divorce?

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Critics of Israel once occupied the fringes of the debate in the United States. Then, in 2007, J […]

John Feffer

Central Intelligence Agency
The Origins of the West’s Iran Crisis: Oil, Autocracy and Coup

The Origins of the West’s Iran Crisis: Oil, Autocracy and Coup

Review of David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954. Chapel Hill: The University of North […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Hizbullah
Will Israel's Gaza Campaign expand to Hezbollah and Lebanon?

Will Israel’s Gaza Campaign expand to Hezbollah and Lebanon?

By Emilie El Khoury, Queen’s University, Ontario | – The devastating war in Gaza is now in its sixth month, and the figures are alarming: […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
"Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds:" Genocide and Ecocide stalk the Earth

“Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds:” Genocide and Ecocide stalk the Earth

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only […]

William J. Astore

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