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Gaza’s “Walking Corpses:” Jewish Law does not Permit ignoring Atrocities
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Gaza’s “Walking Corpses:” Jewish Law does not Permit ignoring Atrocities

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Jewish law does not permit us to look away when atrocities are being committed. It is […]

The quiet War: What’s fueling Israel’s Surge of settler Violence – and the Lack of State Response

The quiet War: What’s fueling Israel’s Surge of settler Violence – and the Lack of State Response

08/01/2025 By The Conversation

The “D” in Donald is for “Decline” — of America

The “D” in Donald is for “Decline” — of America

08/01/2025 By Tom Engelhardt

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Egypt
Muslim Opposition to the Muslim Religious Right Grows, from Egypt to Bangladesh

Muslim Opposition to the Muslim Religious Right Grows, from Egypt to Bangladesh

The headlines this week were full of stories from the Muslim world about Muslims attacking the Muslim religious Right, whether the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt […]

Juan Cole

Drones
How the US Decides Drone-kill People when it Doesn’t Know Who they Are (Currier)

How the US Decides Drone-kill People when it Doesn’t Know Who they Are (Currier)

Cora Currier writes at ProPublica Earlier this week, we wrote about a significant but often overlooked aspect of the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen: […]

Juan Cole

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Taking on Creeping Creationism in Public Schools (Moyers Video)

Taking on Creeping Creationism in Public Schools (Moyers Video)

Bill Moyers interviews Zack Kopplin on keeping the teaching of Creationism in public-funded public schools. US students are not making the gains in science and […]

Juan Cole

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After Benedict:  Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

After Benedict: Religions have to Democratize if they are to Survive

The US television news coverage of Benedict XVI’s last day in office was extremely annoying because it mostly wasn’t good journalism. CNN kept talking about […]

Juan Cole

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New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

New Light on the CIA Coup in Iran on its 60th Anniversary: Why “Argo” Needs a Prequel (Sternfeld)

Lior Sternfeld writes in a guest column for Informed Comment 2013 marks the sixtieth anniversary to the most atrocious intervention of the US in the […]

Juan Cole

al-Qaeda
How the British Gov’t Stripped Alleged Militants of Citizenship before they were Droned to Death (Woods & Ross)

How the British Gov’t Stripped Alleged Militants of Citizenship before they were Droned to Death (Woods & Ross)

Chris Woods and Alice K Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia
Harlem Shake as Protest in Tunis

Harlem Shake as Protest in Tunis

Hard line Salafi fundamentalists (who are small fringe in Tunis) showed up at a language school in Tunisia’s capital on Wednesday to attempt to stop […]

Juan Cole

US politics
Why Scalia is Wrong about Voting as “Racial Entitlement”: Texas’ Long History of Minority Vote Supression (Beckett & Lee)

Why Scalia is Wrong about Voting as “Racial Entitlement”: Texas’ Long History of Minority Vote Supression (Beckett & Lee)

Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee have updated their earlier article at ProPublica. Although published earlier, it inadvertently serves as a canny intervention in the debate […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Hagel Confirmed, but Bloodied by American Nationalists Seeking Wars & World Dominance

Hagel Confirmed, but Bloodied by American Nationalists Seeking Wars & World Dominance

The GOP senators have their own foreign policy, and it isn’t the same as that of President Obama or Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. For […]

Juan Cole

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