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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas
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Cowardly Israeli Murder of 5 Journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, Smearing them as Hamas

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state by now has a long and sanguinary history of murdering writers and journalists in cold blood. In […]

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

As Summer Temperatures Soar, Iran’s Water Crisis Worsens

08/11/2025 By Global Voices

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

Why the Gaza War won’t End: Israel’s Strategic Goal has been Ethnic Cleansing

08/11/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

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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

Climate Crisis
Germany produced Record 175 TWh Energy with Wind, Solar in Past Year, as Wind Farms Surge

Germany produced Record 175 TWh Energy with Wind, Solar in Past Year, as Wind Farms Surge

By Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) The year 2023 was the windiest in Germany in more than 15 years, providing excellent […]

Clean Energy Wire

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