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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

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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

Batteries
Climate Victory: Texas Solar Power Growing so Rapidly, it is Reducing demand for Fossil Gas

Climate Victory: Texas Solar Power Growing so Rapidly, it is Reducing demand for Fossil Gas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The far right Texas legislature, dominated by Republicans in the back pocket of the fossil fuel industry, has done what […]

Juan Cole

Australia
Countries like Australia are  Floating the idea of Recognizing Palestine to push Peace

Countries like Australia are Floating the idea of Recognizing Palestine to push Peace

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra | – Foreign Minister Penny Wong has taken Australian policy a modest step towards embracing recognition of a Palestine state […]

The Conversation

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