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Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?
Climate Change

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Juan Cole

Mongols of the Golden Horde catapulted the cadavers of plague victims over the wall of the city of Caffa

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One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

12/09/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

Trump campaigned on Ending Forever Wars: Marco Rubio didn’t get the Memo

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Innocence is under Siege, with a psychological Toll on Gaza's Children

Innocence is under Siege, with a psychological Toll on Gaza’s Children

By Aijaz Ahmad Mir | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The ongoing conflict in occupied Palestine has had a major effect on the […]

Middle East Monitor

Dissent
Turning Universities into Homeland Security Classes, 101

Turning Universities into Homeland Security Classes, 101

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the […]

Tomdispatch

Apartheid
Ireland Recognizes Palestine, Broaches sanctions on Israel for "Barbaric" Airstrikes, Settler Violence

Ireland Recognizes Palestine, Broaches sanctions on Israel for “Barbaric” Airstrikes, Settler Violence

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland joined Spain and Norway on Tuesday in formally recognizing Palestine as a “sovereign and independent state” in Gaza and […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
How America’s 25 Gigs of New Solar will help keep Power on during our Coming Scorching Summer

How America’s 25 Gigs of New Solar will help keep Power on during our Coming Scorching Summer

By: Robert Zullo – ( Florida Phoenix ) -With some parts of the country already facing heat waves, the organization in charge of setting reliability standards for the […]

Florida Phoenix

Donald Trump
The intersectionality of Hate helps us understand the Ideology of Donald Trump and the Far Right

The intersectionality of Hate helps us understand the Ideology of Donald Trump and the Far Right

By Francis Dupuis-Déri, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | – (The Conversation) – A new conceptual tool is required to fully understand the most […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide

Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli air force bombed a refugee tent camp west of Rafah City around 8:45 pm local time on Sunday. […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Is Israel's War on Gaza destabilizing Egypt?

Is Israel’s War on Gaza destabilizing Egypt?

By Haneen Shoukry | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – On Tuesday, April 23, protesters in Cairo were detained while participating in a peaceful demonstration in […]

Global Voices

Iran
Iranian President's Death Could Trigger 'Power Competition' For Next Supreme Leader

Iranian President’s Death Could Trigger ‘Power Competition’ For Next Supreme Leader

( RFE/RL ) – The sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi has thrown a wrench in the succession plans of Iran’s elderly supreme leader. The […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Report of the Independent International Commission of violations of international human rights law (IHRL), international humanitarian law (IHL) and possible international crimes committed by all parties between 7 October and 31 December 2023

Report of the Independent International Commission of violations of international human rights law (IHRL), international humanitarian law (IHL) and possible international crimes committed by all parties between 7 October and 31 December 2023

  Advance unedited version   Distr.: General 27 May 2024   Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty sixth session 18 June–12 July 2024 Agenda item […]

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