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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, […]

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

As Netanyahu moves toward full Takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a Crisis of international Credibility

08/09/2025 By The Conversation

On Occidental College’s Disciplining of Students Protesting Gaza

On Occidental College’s Disciplining of Students Protesting Gaza

08/09/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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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 […]

Tomdispatch

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Russian Roulette: Doctors w/out Borders Demand Immediate Ceasefire as Hospitals turned into "Morgues"

Russian Roulette: Doctors w/out Borders Demand Immediate Ceasefire as Hospitals turned into “Morgues”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Doctors without Borders (the French volunteer organization Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF]) has written a poignant letter to the United Nations […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Conflict:  Deadliest Month for Journalists on Record

Gaza Conflict: Deadliest Month for Journalists on Record

( Committee to Protect Journalists) – Editor’s note: The list below is CPJ’s most complete account of journalist deaths in the war. Our database will […]

Committee to Protect Journalists

Climate Crisis
Fossil CO₂ Emissions hit Record High yet again in 2023

Fossil CO₂ Emissions hit Record High yet again in 2023

By Pep Canadell, CSIRO; Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia; Glen Peters, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo; Judith Hauck, Universität […]

The Conversation

Charity
Beacons of Civilization

Beacons of Civilization

Civilization has been described as “the slow process of learning to be kind.”  This past summer and early fall, while I stood with peace and […]

H. Patricia Hynes

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This is a War on Children, and "Safe Zones" are Death Traps:  UNICEF

This is a War on Children, and “Safe Zones” are Death Traps: UNICEF

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is […]

Juan Cole

India
The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle:  Its Human Toll Will Be Incalculable

The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle: Its Human Toll Will Be Incalculable

By Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox ( Tomdispatch.com) – In 1981, India’s post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied […]

Tomdispatch

censorship
Protesting the University of Pennsylvania Ban on the Screening of the Documentary, “Israelism”

Protesting the University of Pennsylvania Ban on the Screening of the Documentary, “Israelism”

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association Liz Magill President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu   John Jackson Provost, the University of Pennsylvania provost@upenn.edu […]

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