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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

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Central Asia
Does Bear + Dragon Trump Eagle?  How Russia & China may block the US in Asia

Does Bear + Dragon Trump Eagle? How Russia & China may block the US in Asia

By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch.com A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s […]

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Asia
The Yasukuni Shuffle:  China and Japan duke it out via T.V. Serials on the Wrongs of WW II

The Yasukuni Shuffle: China and Japan duke it out via T.V. Serials on the Wrongs of WW II

By Philip J Cunningham Everyday hundreds, if not thousands of Chinese and Japanese kill one another on Chinese television. Hundreds of Anti-Japan war dramas were […]

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Pan-Mideast War:  ISIL and al-Qaeda attack Hizbullah outposts Near Lebanese Border

Pan-Mideast War: ISIL and al-Qaeda attack Hizbullah outposts Near Lebanese Border

By Juan Cole ISIL and al-Qaeda have, according to Hizbullah, launched attacks in Syria’s Qalamoun district (abutting the Lebanese border near Baalbek) on Hizbullah military […]

Juan Cole

Health
Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response

Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response

News365 “WASHINGTON — The lead agency tasked with responding to the threat of Ebola both within the United States and abroad has seen its budget […]

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Iraq
Kurdish Forces Under-equipped, Need ground troop Allies:  Peshmerga General

Kurdish Forces Under-equipped, Need ground troop Allies: Peshmerga General

RFE/RL In an interview with Samira Ali Mandee of RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq, General Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the Peshmerga Ministry of Iraq’s Kurdish region, […]

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Climate Change
Beyond Antarctica:  3-Foot Sea Level Rise from Melting Alaskan, Other Glaciers Alone

Beyond Antarctica: 3-Foot Sea Level Rise from Melting Alaskan, Other Glaciers Alone

NSF: “Tighten your seat belt! This runway is made of ice. Welcome to the Ruth Glacier, deep inside Alaska’s Denali National Park. Many of the […]

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ISIL Still Taking Towns in Iraq's Al-Anbar as Coalition Airstrikes are Delayed

ISIL Still Taking Towns in Iraq’s Al-Anbar as Coalition Airstrikes are Delayed

By Juan Cole The pan-Arab London daily Al-Hayat [Life] reports today that ISIL is still expanding its sway in towns in Iraq’s western al-Anbar Province, […]

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Apartheid
Defying US, Sweden to Recognize Palestine (First in Western Europe)

Defying US, Sweden to Recognize Palestine (First in Western Europe)

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The prime minister of the Kingdom of Sweden on Friday said that the country would recognize the State of Palestine, becoming the […]

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Islam-hatred
How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get about Muslims with Reza Aslan? THIS STUPID.

How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get about Muslims with Reza Aslan? THIS STUPID.

Sam Seder “Watch as Reza Aslan schools CNN anchors and Bill Maher on their Islamophobia…” Sam Seder: “How Stupid Can CNN Hosts Get? THIS STUPID”

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