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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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The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus (Juan at Dawn)

The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus (Juan at Dawn)

Excerpted from Dawn (Democracy for the Arab World Now) Israel’s total war on Gaza, following Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on Oct. 7, has roiled higher […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s War on Gaza shouldn’t be America’s War

Israel’s War on Gaza shouldn’t be America’s War

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Congress
US Scholars of Mideast dispute House Resolution 894’s Equation of anti-Zionism with Antisemitism

US Scholars of Mideast dispute House Resolution 894’s Equation of anti-Zionism with Antisemitism

Committee on Academic Freedom, North America, Middle East Studies Association | – Representative Mike Johnson Speaker of the House of Representatives   Representative Hakim Jeffries […]

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The Real Dr. Strangelove: Kissinger's Legacy of Mass Murder, Contempt for Human Rights, and Military Aggression

The Real Dr. Strangelove: Kissinger’s Legacy of Mass Murder, Contempt for Human Rights, and Military Aggression

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Amid media whitewashing of Henry Kissinger’s atrocities after his death at 100, we must not lose sight of […]

Dan Dinello

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israeli Rhetoric fuels fears of Ethnic Cleansing as Israeli Assault continues to push South

Gaza: Israeli Rhetoric fuels fears of Ethnic Cleansing as Israeli Assault continues to push South

By Afaf Jabiri, University of East London | – (The Conversation) – Over the past eight weeks, with only a brief pause, the Israel Defense […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
New Climate Report Shows Impact of Drying on Human Health in American Southwest

New Climate Report Shows Impact of Drying on Human Health in American Southwest

By Alex Hager/KUNC ( Cronkite News ) – The arid West is getting drier, and shrinking water supplies pose a boatload of risks to human […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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The Moral Consequences of the War on Gaza

The Moral Consequences of the War on Gaza

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The moral high ground, has been lost by Israel in the Gaza onslaught while it attempts to […]

Hugh J. Curran

Chemical Weapons
Another Reason to be anti-War: It Systemically Ruins the Earth’s Entire Ecologic System

Another Reason to be anti-War: It Systemically Ruins the Earth’s Entire Ecologic System

By Jonathan Bridge, Sheffield Hallam University | – (The Conversation) – On the morning of December 6 1917, a French cargo ship called SS Mont-Blanc […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Make American Fascist Again!  Don’t Say you Weren’t Warned about a Trump return to the White House

Make American Fascist Again! Don’t Say you Weren’t Warned about a Trump return to the White House

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt […]

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