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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Academic Freedom

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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Anti-intellectualism
Condemning Vanderbilt University’s Suspension of Students Engaged in Peaceful Protest against Gaza Campaign

Condemning Vanderbilt University’s Suspension of Students Engaged in Peaceful Protest against Gaza Campaign

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Daniel Diermeier Chancellor, Vanderbilt University daniel.diermeier@vanderbilt.edu   C. Cybele Raver Provost, Vanderbilt University cybele.raver@vanderbilt.edu […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Displaced and Refugees
Not Enough: Biden decries Netanyahu Strategy as a "Mistake," Mourns WCK dead, Calls for 6-8 Week Pause

Not Enough: Biden decries Netanyahu Strategy as a “Mistake,” Mourns WCK dead, Calls for 6-8 Week Pause

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden granted the Spanish-language cable television channel Univision an interview that aired on Tuesday evening. Biden ranged widely, condemning […]

Juan Cole

Anti-intellectualism
Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza

Over 1,500 North American Academics Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza

  NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 APRIL 2024 Contact: academicsvsscholasticide@gmail.com   Faisal Bhabha, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Heidi Matthews, Osgoode Hall Law […]

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Corporations
Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

Republicans Plan to wage Class Warfare on Working People

( Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Nicaragua Sues Germany at Int'l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a "Genocidal" Israel

Nicaragua Sues Germany at Int’l Court of Justice to Halt Weapons to a “Genocidal” Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicaragua’s opposition online newspaper, La Prensa , reported Monday that proceedings began at the International Court of Justice in Managua’s […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Dangerous Deceptions and Outright Lies:  Language in the War on Gaza

Dangerous Deceptions and Outright Lies: Language in the War on Gaza

By Dubravka Žarkov | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Israel’s political and military leaders have produced so many outright lies regarding Gaza and […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel/ Palestine
A "Herculean" Task:  Can Gaza ever be Rebuilt?

A “Herculean” Task: Can Gaza ever be Rebuilt?

By Dima Nazzal, Georgia Institute of Technology | – Over a decade ago, a United Nations report described the Gaza Strip as virtually unlivable, adding […]

The Conversation

Algeria
The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism

The Wretched of Palestine: Frantz Fanon Diagnosed the Pathology of Colonialism and Urged Revolutionary Humanism

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “The colonized took up arms not only because they were dying of hunger and witnessing the disintegration of […]

Dan Dinello

Counter-Terrorism
The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo

The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

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Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

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Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Juan Cole

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