Informed Comment

Famed Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up and Never Surrender

By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been more than nine months now since my friend, famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer, died, a week before […]

Tomdispatch

Featured

Int’l Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Court of Justice, established by the UN to adjudicate issues among nations, issued an advisory opinion on Wednesday […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Will global Support for Palestine force Israel to honour Ceasefire in Gaza?

Whether Israel respects Gaza truce will come down to Trump, who will be under pressure from leaders trying to curb protests

Open Democracy

Children

Saudi Arabia: Spate of Executions of Child Offenders

300th Person Executed in Saudi Arabia in 2025

Human Rights Watch

China

Juan Cole on Gaza, U.S. Policy, and the Future of the Middle East

I was welcomed onto David Lin’s Podcast, “The David Lin Report” to talk about Gaza, the Middle East and the US-China rivalry. Embedded video and […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis

Drought, Sand Storms and Evacuations: how Iran’s Climate Crisis gets Ignored

By Sanam Mahoozi, City St George’s, University of London (The Conversation) – Iran and Israel fought a 12-day war in June. Although a ceasefire was […]

The Conversation

Democratic Party

Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide […]

Norman Solomon

Academic Freedom