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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Israel/ Palestine
Western Powers could Stop the Gaza Genocide; instead they Cover it Up with "Humanitarian Aid"

Western Powers could Stop the Gaza Genocide; instead they Cover it Up with “Humanitarian Aid”

By Caroline Lund and Brendan Ciarán Browne | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing genocide in Gaza has starkly exposed Western governments’ […]

Middle East Monitor

Pentagon
Daring Look a Sacred Cow in the Teeth: Military Spending and National (in)Security

Daring Look a Sacred Cow in the Teeth: Military Spending and National (in)Security

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world’s finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now […]

William J. Astore

Climate Crisis
First US Offshore Wind Farm goes Live off Long Island in Omen of a Green Future, Cheaper Electricity

First US Offshore Wind Farm goes Live off Long Island in Omen of a Green Future, Cheaper Electricity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This past week, the United States joined the rest of the advanced industrial countries in the world in having at […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
If trees could talk: Tree rings show recent decades warmest in 500 years

If trees could talk: Tree rings show recent decades warmest in 500 years

By Alex Hager/KUNC ( Cronkite News ) The current Western megadrought is unlike any other dry period the region has experienced over the past 500 […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Displaced and Refugees
Sudan: Urgent Action Needed on Hunger Crisis

Sudan: Urgent Action Needed on Hunger Crisis

Security Council Should Act on Access for Aid Deliveries ( Human Rights Watch ) – (New York, March 15, 2024) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio […]

Human Rights Watch

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Schumer, breaking with Netanyahu, Signals that even Corporate Dems' Support for Israel is no Longer Unconditional

Schumer, breaking with Netanyahu, Signals that even Corporate Dems’ Support for Israel is no Longer Unconditional

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Whether driven by moral compass, or political survival; America’s Democratic leaders are finally recognizing the obvious: The […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel/ Palestine
Nonviolence in the Holy Land: Fear, Love and Palestine with Sami Awad

Nonviolence in the Holy Land: Fear, Love and Palestine with Sami Awad

  Nonviolence Radio Nonviolence Radio Team     Former Holy Land Trust Executive Director Sami Awad. (Facebook/Sami Awad) Subscribe to “Nonviolence Radio” on Apple Podcasts, […]

Waging Nonviolence

Haredim
Israel’s Army Exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox: A Jewish State divided over the Jewish Religion

Israel’s Army Exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox: A Jewish State divided over the Jewish Religion

By Michael Brenner, American University | – Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
S. Africa Will Arrest Dual Nationals Fighting in Gaza, Demands Halt to Starvation of Palestinians

S. Africa Will Arrest Dual Nationals Fighting in Gaza, Demands Halt to Starvation of Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – South Africa’s Townpress reports that Naledi Pandor, the country’s foreign minister, pledged this week to arrest any South African/ Israeli […]

Juan Cole

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Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

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