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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty
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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and […]

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

08/20/2025 By The Conversation

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

08/20/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

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Authoritarianism
Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump!

Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump!

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then […]

Karen J. Greenberg

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Israel continues to Starve, Target Gaza Civilians in ongoing Genocide

Israel continues to Starve, Target Gaza Civilians in ongoing Genocide

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The fascist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to wage war on Gaza civilians, in the longest and most […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Extreme Weather alone doesn’t Change Views on Climate Change, People need to Link Them

Extreme Weather alone doesn’t Change Views on Climate Change, People need to Link Them

By Omid Ghasemi, UNSW Sydney (The Conversation) – Climate change has made extreme weather events such as bushfires and floods more frequent and more likely […]

The Conversation

History
On the Electoral Tactics of the American Historical Association

On the Electoral Tactics of the American Historical Association

By Joan W. Scott professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. I was deeply disturbed […]

Joan W. Scott

China
Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry

Trump never saw a Wind Farm in China, but Beijing has half of all Installed Wind Capacity and will Eat America’s Lunch in this Industry

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dufus-in-chief perorated on Friday once again on wind power, complaining that the components are made in China but that […]

Juan Cole

Genocide
The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric

( Middle East Monitor ) – While more rhetoric but barely any pressure is raised against the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) and Israel using the […]

Ramona Wadi

Displaced and Refugees
Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

Comics and Graphic Novels can empower Refugees to tell their Stories on their own Terms

By Dominic Davies, City St George’s, University of London and Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg (The Conversation) – There are more refugees in the world […]

The Conversation

China
Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Why China’s Inaction on Palestine and Iran Weakens its Global Standing

Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]

Hamdullah Baycar

Donald Trump
Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

Between Two Enemies: Syria’s Silence in the Israel-Iran Conflicts

( Aljumhuriya ) – Even as a ceasefire has, for now, calmed tensions between Israel and Iran, Trump’s decision to officially join Israel’s war effort […]

Daanish Faruqi

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