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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know

Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know

08/22/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Palestine
Palestinian Women:  The Oppressed of the Oppressed

Palestinian Women: The Oppressed of the Oppressed

By Mel Frykberg | – GAZA CITY (IPS) – Israel’s siege of Gaza, aided and abetted by the Egyptians in the south, has aggravated the […]

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Yemen Bombing:  It's not ISIL and it's not Sunni-Shiite Conflict

Yemen Bombing: It’s not ISIL and it’s not Sunni-Shiite Conflict

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The massive twin bombings at mosques in the capital that shook Yemen on Friday, killing over 100 and […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Even if they can Defeat ISIL/ Daesh, Can Iraqi Politicians Get together?  The Surprising Answer

Even if they can Defeat ISIL/ Daesh, Can Iraqi Politicians Get together? The Surprising Answer

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) – Former political enemies are forming new, non-sectarian alliances to prepare for an extremist-free future. Shiites are partnering […]

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Climate Change
Unprecedented CO2 Crimes:   Next time, Let’s Call it “Cyclone ExxonMobil”

Unprecedented CO2 Crimes: Next time, Let’s Call it “Cyclone ExxonMobil”

By David Ray Griffin, author of “Unprecedented: Can Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis?” (Clarity Press, 2015). | – Cyclone Pam, which this past week caused […]

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Barack Obama
Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state

Obama might stop vetoing UNSC Resolutions re: Israel after Netanyahu rejected Palestinian state

RT | – The US is “evaluating” its policy towards Israel in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election and campaign statements. This could involve passing […]

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International Criminal Court
Will Palestine now take Israel's Netanyahu to Int'l Criminal Court for War Crimes?

Will Palestine now take Israel’s Netanyahu to Int’l Criminal Court for War Crimes?

By Kate Shuttleworth and Joe Dyke | JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (IRIN) – Shortly before Israel’s elections on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that as long as […]

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Climate Change
10 Foot Sea Level Rise Concern:  Warm Water Reaching Antarctic Fast-Thinning Glacier

10 Foot Sea Level Rise Concern: Warm Water Reaching Antarctic Fast-Thinning Glacier

Jackson School of Geoscience News | University of Texas, Austin | – Excerpt: Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) […]

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Bill of Rights
Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

Top 5 Signs of the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq's Response

Iraq: Shiite Militia atrocities During Fight Against ISIL & Iraq’s Response

Human Rights Watch | (New York) – Militias, volunteer fighters, and Iraqi security forces engaged in deliberate destruction of civilian property after these forces, following […]

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