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Iran’s Grand Strategy –  Vali Nasr
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Iran’s Grand Strategy – Vali Nasr

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]

64 Palestinians in Gaza Killed trying to Reach Aid Centers in 24 Hours

64 Palestinians in Gaza Killed trying to Reach Aid Centers in 24 Hours

06/19/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More

Resistance Works: How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More

06/19/2025 By David Vine

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Weapons R US: Confessions of a Recovering Arms Addict

Weapons R US: Confessions of a Recovering Arms Addict

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Perhaps you’ve heard of “Makin’ Thunderbirds,” a hard-bitten rock & roll song by Bob Seger that I listened to 30 years […]

William J. Astore

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Israeli Minister's Threat to Nuke Gaza displays Genocidal Mood: "There are no Civilians in Gaza"

Israeli Minister’s Threat to Nuke Gaza displays Genocidal Mood: “There are no Civilians in Gaza”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu, a member of the fascist Jewish Power bloc brought into government by Prime Minister […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s ‘graveyard’ for children: Why Palestinians must be included in the International Refugee Protection Regime

Gaza’s ‘graveyard’ for children: Why Palestinians must be included in the International Refugee Protection Regime

By Maissaa Almustafa, University of Waterloo | – Israeli airstrikes have destroyed apartment blocks and killed and injured hundreds of people at refugee camps in […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Suspend Arms to Israel, Palestinian Armed Groups, or Risk Complicity in Grave Abuses (HRW)

Suspend Arms to Israel, Palestinian Armed Groups, or Risk Complicity in Grave Abuses (HRW)

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Jerusalem) – Allies of Israel and backers of Palestinian armed groups should suspend the transfer of arms to the […]

Human Rights Watch

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Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Israeli PM Netanyahu's Performative Genocide in Gaza

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Performative Genocide in Gaza

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to destroy Hamas, whatever the cost to civilians in Gaza, is based on […]

Mark Karlin

Ecology
Researchers alarmed at Damage Caused by Forever Chemicals (PFAS)

Researchers alarmed at Damage Caused by Forever Chemicals (PFAS)

By Eadaoin Carthy, Dublin City University and Abrar Abdelsalam, Dublin City University | – (The Conversation) – Since their inception in the 1940s, the so-called […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
How Turning Gaza into a Hellhole is Costing Americans Billions as Child Poverty Spikes at Home

How Turning Gaza into a Hellhole is Costing Americans Billions as Child Poverty Spikes at Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On September 19, 2001, eight days after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied drumbeat of […]

Liz Theoharis

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Far Rightwing Israeli Gov't's Actions risk fueling Global Anti-Semitism While Republicans Stoke Islamophobia

Far Rightwing Israeli Gov’t’s Actions risk fueling Global Anti-Semitism While Republicans Stoke Islamophobia

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The compounding tragedies in Israel and Palestine lead to a sad and harsh realization: Today’s mutant form […]

H. Scott Prosterman

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