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War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza
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War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza

Peter G. Prontzos

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, […]

Wildfire Season is starting Weeks earlier in California – a new Study shows how Climate Change is driving the Expansion

Wildfire Season is starting Weeks earlier in California – a new Study shows how Climate Change is driving the Expansion

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Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

08/08/2025 By Human Rights Watch

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Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content

Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is Systemically Censoring Palestine Content

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in […]

Human Rights Watch

Plutocracy
A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears among Rich that He Would Resign

A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears among Rich that He Would Resign

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski and Brett Murphy | – ( ProPublica ) – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real […]

ProPublica

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Just Say No: Biden Must Create Peace out of the Gaza Crisis and Rein in the Israeli Right

Just Say No: Biden Must Create Peace out of the Gaza Crisis and Rein in the Israeli Right

Take a Leaf from the Book of George H. W. Bush

Lior Sternfeld

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Gaza Crisis:   US-Led Taskforce deploys in Red Sea and Considers Strikes on Yemen

Gaza Crisis: US-Led Taskforce deploys in Red Sea and Considers Strikes on Yemen

By Basil Germond, Lancaster University | – The US is reportedly considering strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen that have been menacing commercial ships in […]

The Conversation

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The US and China at Year’s End: Still Treading on the Precipice

The US and China at Year’s End: Still Treading on the Precipice

( Tomdispatch.com) – This hasn’t exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15th, U.S. […]

Michael T. Klare

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If you Prick us, do We not Bleed? -  Shakespeare in Gaza

If you Prick us, do We not Bleed? – Shakespeare in Gaza

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Is there a scale that can measure the value of 7,000 dead Palestinian children vs. 1200 dead Israelis? What […]

Mark Karlin

Arab Americans
Hamtramck, Michigan, City Council Votes to rename Street in Support of Palestine

Hamtramck, Michigan, City Council Votes to rename Street in Support of Palestine

By: Layla McMurtrie – ( Michigan Advance ) – As a symbolic gesture and demonstration of solidarity with the people in Gaza, Hamtramck’s all-Muslim City […]

Michigan Advance

Climate Crisis
2023’s extreme Storms, Heat and Wildfires broke Records, and Burning Fossil Fuels Played a big Part

2023’s extreme Storms, Heat and Wildfires broke Records, and Burning Fossil Fuels Played a big Part

By Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton | – The year 2023 was marked by extraordinary heat, wildfires and weather disasters. In the U.S., an unprecedented […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
How Big Oil is Taking us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride: With the World the Hottest in 125,000 Years, we're being Gaslighted

How Big Oil is Taking us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride: With the World the Hottest in 125,000 Years, we’re being Gaslighted

Here is my latest column for The Nation Institute’s must-read Tomdispatch.com site. Make sure to check out the original for legendary journalist Tom Engelhardt’s fantastic […]

Juan Cole

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