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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

08/23/2025 By ProPublica

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

08/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Ukraine as a Global Economic War, and the Role of the Middle East

Review of Maximilian Hess, “Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West” (London: Hurst & Co., 2023). Barcelona (Special to Informed […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

Our World-Historical Turning Point – Kairos – is Now, and Everything Depends on the Youths

( Tomdispatch.com) – “All Americans owe them a debt for — if nothing else — releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that […]

Liz Theoharis

Donald Trump
America's Theater of the Absurd Election:  Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

America’s Theater of the Absurd Election: Trump, Fascism, Reality and . . . the Rhinoceros

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 1968, the Youth International Party nominated a pig named Pigasus for president; in 2024, the Republican Party […]

Dan Dinello

Houthi
US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

US Officials Care More about Protecting Oil Tankers than Palestinians

By Edward Hunt | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – While Israel continues its military offensive in Gaza, the United States is directing […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Archaeology
Gaza's Oldest Mosque, Destroyed in Israeli Airstrike, was once a Pagan Temple, a Church and had Jewish Engravings

Gaza’s Oldest Mosque, Destroyed in Israeli Airstrike, was once a Pagan Temple, a Church and had Jewish Engravings

Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin The Omari Mosque in Gaza was largely destroyed by Israeli bombardment on Dec. 8, 2023. It was […]

The Conversation

Iraq
Afterlife of Occupation : Iraqi Academia and the Peripheries of Resurgence 20 Years After Bush’s Invasion

Afterlife of Occupation : Iraqi Academia and the Peripheries of Resurgence 20 Years After Bush’s Invasion

University of Michigan | Hatcher Graduate Library Discussion | – A panel discussion exploring the landscape of anti-war advocacy within U.S. universities at the outset […]

Juan Cole

Anti-intellectualism
Zionism, Anti-Palestinianism, and the Fall of Harvard's Claudine Gay

Zionism, Anti-Palestinianism, and the Fall of Harvard’s Claudine Gay

Berkeley, CA (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Much of the media conversation about the recent resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, has (rightfully) framed […]

Charles Hirschkind

Debt
The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You) – Overspending on the Pentagon Is Stealing Our Future

The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You) – Overspending on the Pentagon Is Stealing Our Future

( Tomdispatch.com ) – 2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’s horrific terror attacks on Israel, […]

William D. Hartung

Bill of Rights
Academic Freedom Violations at Indiana U against Professor Abdelkader Sinno and artist Samia Halaby

Academic Freedom Violations at Indiana U against Professor Abdelkader Sinno and artist Samia Halaby

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Abdelkader Sinno Indiana University Samia Halaby Rahul Shrivastav, Provost and Executive […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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