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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

08/08/2025 By The Conversation

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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The Fate of Nations depends on Women's Equality: Int'l Women's Day

The Fate of Nations depends on Women’s Equality: Int’l Women’s Day

On March 8, 1908, women garment workers marched through New York City’s Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions and to […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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Growing 'Despondency' And Hard-Liners' Dominance: Key Takeaways From Iran's Elections

Growing ‘Despondency’ And Hard-Liners’ Dominance: Key Takeaways From Iran’s Elections

By By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL ) – Iran’s parliamentary elections on March 1 witnessed a historically low turnout, in a blow to the […]

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Tempest in a Teapot: British Illusions and American Hegemony from Iraq to Yemen

Tempest in a Teapot: British Illusions and American Hegemony from Iraq to Yemen

Review of Tom Stevenson, Someone Else’s Empire: British Illusions and American Hegemony.. London: Verso, 2023. Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Everything is going […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Anti-intellectualism
As Gaza is obliterated, Scholars and Academics need to Speak Up

As Gaza is obliterated, Scholars and Academics need to Speak Up

BY Yasmin Saikia & Chad Haines Nikolas Gannon/Unsplash . Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines co-direct the Center of Muslim Experience in the U.S. at Arizona […]

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Islam
Ramadan finds greater Recognition in America’s Public Schools

Ramadan finds greater Recognition in America’s Public Schools

By Amaarah DeCuir, American University | – Ramadan – the Islamic month of fasting – is expected to begin at sunset on March 10, 2024. […]

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Donald Trump
Trump, Like Biden, supports Israeli Campaign against Gaza: "You've got to finish the Problem"

Trump, Like Biden, supports Israeli Campaign against Gaza: “You’ve got to finish the Problem”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump telephoned in to “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday, breaking his long silence on Israel’s campaign against Gaza. So reports […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
A Dictionary for Understanding the War on Gaza

A Dictionary for Understanding the War on Gaza

Written byCivic Media Observatory   This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. Welcome back to Undertones, where we study […]

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Climate Crisis
Living on the Wrong World: A Planetary Cease Fire is Desperately Needed

Living on the Wrong World: A Planetary Cease Fire is Desperately Needed

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On this planet of ours, it almost doesn’t matter who’s right and who’s wrong when it comes to our wars. Actually, […]

Tom Engelhardt

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As Palestinian Children Die of Hunger, US blows ineffectual Kisses with Air Drop

As Palestinian Children Die of Hunger, US blows ineffectual Kisses with Air Drop

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The known deaths from starvation of Palestinian children in Gaza hospitals rose to 16 on Monday. This is a fraction […]

Juan Cole

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