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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

08/08/2025 By The Conversation

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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Air Power is horribly Expensive and Inefficient, and Drones are no Different (Astore)

Air Power is horribly Expensive and Inefficient, and Drones are no Different (Astore)

William J. Astore writes at Tomdispatch.com: Today’s unmanned aerial vehicles, most famously Predator and Reaper drones, have been celebrated as the culmination of the longtime […]

Juan Cole

Israel
The Top other thing Netanyahu Needs to Apologize For: The Gaza Blockade

The Top other thing Netanyahu Needs to Apologize For: The Gaza Blockade

The one diplomatic success of President Obama’s mainly pro forma visit to Israel and Jordan was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s pro forma apology to Turkey’s […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Global Warming is making the Arid Middle East Even Drier, threatening Water Wars

Global Warming is making the Arid Middle East Even Drier, threatening Water Wars

Middle East is getting drier because of climate change, impelling people to replace lost rain water with underground fossil or aquifer water that cannot be […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Iraq 10 Years Later: The Bitter Days Continue because Policy didn't put  People First (Al-Sheemary)

Iraq 10 Years Later: The Bitter Days Continue because Policy didn’t put People First (Al-Sheemary)

Banen Al-Sheemary ( @balsheem), a young Iraqi-American woman and activist, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Ten years today, I remember sitting in […]

Juan Cole

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Will the CIA’s Black Sites and Subcontracting of Tortue Come out with Public Indictment? (Currier)

Will the CIA’s Black Sites and Subcontracting of Tortue Come out with Public Indictment? (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica: Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun with six terrorism-related counts. The announcement that […]

Juan Cole

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How the Big Banks are getting Away with It (Moyers Interview)

How the Big Banks are getting Away with It (Moyers Interview)

Former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and long-time Republican Sheila Bair tells Bill Moyers what the big banks have done and that they’re […]

Juan Cole

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Isaac Asimov Predicts Interactive Internet 25 Years Ago

Isaac Asimov Predicts Interactive Internet 25 Years Ago

Renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov predicts the interactive World Wide Web in 1988, 25 years ago.* *correction from “20 yrs, which is how the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Right: Obama Undermined Netanyahu, Endangers Israel with Call for Palestinian State

Israeli Right: Obama Undermined Netanyahu, Endangers Israel with Call for Palestinian State

President Obama’s speech to students in Jerusalem is covered by Aljazeera. Obama did complain a little about the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians, but he […]

Juan Cole

Iraq War
Phil Donohue Recalls how he Was Fired From MSNBC for Being anti-war (Goodman Interview)

Phil Donohue Recalls how he Was Fired From MSNBC for Being anti-war (Goodman Interview)

At Democracy Now! Phil Donohue recalls how then General Electric-owned NBC fired him from his popular and top-rated talk show on MSNBC in spring of […]

Juan Cole

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