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, […]
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Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory
By Greg Kennedy, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – More than half a million Gazans are currently facing “catastrophic hunger”, according to UN […]
“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights
By Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler ( Tomdispatch.com) – Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency […]
Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at “Intercepted”
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain interview Juan Cole at their superb Intercepted podcast at the Intercept . I come in about 12 minutes in. They […]
Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine
Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Governments should continue funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East […]
Oil Firms Forced to Consider Full Climate Effects of new Drilling after Landmark Norwegian Court Ruling
By Daria Shapovalova, University of Aberdeen | – Norway’s district court in Oslo recently made a decision on fossil fuels that deserves the attention of […]
Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu’s War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Let’s face it. Israel under PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), isn’t helping the fight against global Antisemitism, and […]
Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency
by Dr Binoy Kampmark Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice. In […]
Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the […]
Huge Israeli Conference in Jerusalem Plots Squatter-Settlements in Gaza once it is Ethnically Cleansed
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Sunday evening 12 Israeli cabinet members and 15 members of Parliament (the […]
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