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War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza
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War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza

Peter G. Prontzos

This week marks 80 years since the United States used its nuclear weapons against the civilian population of Japan in August 1945. Prior to that, […]

Wildfire Season is starting Weeks earlier in California – a new Study shows how Climate Change is driving the Expansion

Wildfire Season is starting Weeks earlier in California – a new Study shows how Climate Change is driving the Expansion

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Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

08/08/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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It’s Time to stop playing Politics with Immigrants’ Lives

It’s Time to stop playing Politics with Immigrants’ Lives

By Juan Carlos Gomez | ( Otherwords.com ) – When President Biden was campaigning in 2020, he pledged to strengthen our country by supporting and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
The Most Dangerous Wars: When Local Conflicts become Geopolitics

The Most Dangerous Wars: When Local Conflicts become Geopolitics

By Walden Bello ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Could the Israeli Supreme Court's decree that ultra-Orthodox be Conscripted bring Down Netanyahu?

Could the Israeli Supreme Court’s decree that ultra-Orthodox be Conscripted bring Down Netanyahu?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on the conscription crisis that may cause the Netanyahu government to fall and tear […]

Juan Cole

Israel
The US Administration’s Hypocrisy and Israel’s Cockiness

The US Administration’s Hypocrisy and Israel’s Cockiness

( Middle East Monitor ) – It is truly astonishing that Washington abstained in voting on the resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on […]

Gilbert Achcar

Batteries
Lithium Batteries for EVs need to be produced in Socially Responsible Ways

Lithium Batteries for EVs need to be produced in Socially Responsible Ways

( Tomdispatch.com ) – With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento’s Cal Expo in late […]

Joshua Frank

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"It is Criminal..Show some Humanity!" Ireland will Join ICJ case against Israel on Gaza Starvation, Genocide

“It is Criminal..Show some Humanity!” Ireland will Join ICJ case against Israel on Gaza Starvation, Genocide

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Irish government has decided to intervene in the court case at the International Court of Justice against Israel on […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Europe’s Jewish Scholars of Islam

Europe’s Jewish Scholars of Islam

Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – At the end of the nineteenth century, the Turkish government asked its Minister of Education to prepare a […]

Shalom Goldman

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Israel's 'Iron Wall:' A Brief History of the Ideology Guiding Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s ‘Iron Wall:’ A Brief History of the Ideology Guiding Benjamin Netanyahu

By Eran Kaplan, San Francisco State University | – (The Conversation) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that Israel’s military will soon launch an […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
State Department finding Israel not in Violation of Int'l Law Contradicted by Resigning Official

State Department finding Israel not in Violation of Int’l Law Contradicted by Resigning Official

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US arms transfers are conditioned by federal law, as the Congressional Research office explains, which “prohibits security assistance to ‘any […]

Juan Cole

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