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Psychopathocracy 3.0
Donald Trump

Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
The Horrors of Gaza: Any Solution to the Current Crisis must Put Palestinians at the Center of Decision-Making

The Horrors of Gaza: Any Solution to the Current Crisis must Put Palestinians at the Center of Decision-Making

Originally published in Hankyoreh. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The greatest horror of the war between Israel and Gaza is that it shouldn’t […]

John Feffer

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From Kishinev to Gaza

From Kishinev to Gaza

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pogrom. This Russian term denotes a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring Jews and destroying their […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza War: A better Understanding of the Violence on both Sides might give us a Chance at a Solution

Gaza War: A better Understanding of the Violence on both Sides might give us a Chance at a Solution

By Torbjörn Tännsjö, Stockholm University | – Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7 marked the beginning of a fresh round of conflict between Israel […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Power, Protest and all That’s News: Reporting on the Israel-Gaza Conflict

Power, Protest and all That’s News: Reporting on the Israel-Gaza Conflict

By Nan Levinson | – What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. […]

Tomdispatch

Authoritarianism
Elise Stefanik, proponent of Great Replacement Theory, is no Foe of Racial Bigotry against Jews or Anyone Else

Elise Stefanik, proponent of Great Replacement Theory, is no Foe of Racial Bigotry against Jews or Anyone Else

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) does not care about antisemitism. In the notorious congressional hearing in which she participated last week, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
To Finally Settle the Israel-Palestine Conflict, give it to the UN Security Council

To Finally Settle the Israel-Palestine Conflict, give it to the UN Security Council

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the midst of the post-October 7 war in Gaza, President Biden summarized basic administration markers and policy […]

Benjamin Tua

Displaced and Refugees
Forced Migration as a Strategy of War: Israel's Mass Displacement of Gaza Palestinians

Forced Migration as a Strategy of War: Israel’s Mass Displacement of Gaza Palestinians

By Nicholas R. Micinski, University of Maine; Adam G. Lichtenheld, Stanford University: and Kelsey Norman, Rice University | – As a result of the monthslong […]

The Conversation

Egypt
Not "Surrounded by Enemies:" Regional Powers Egypt and Turkey retain Ties with Israel during Gaza  Conflict despite Critical Rhetoric

Not “Surrounded by Enemies:” Regional Powers Egypt and Turkey retain Ties with Israel during Gaza Conflict despite Critical Rhetoric

Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A recent conversation in Israel was reported by The Forward: “‘We are surrounded by our enemies,’ muttered a […]

Mohamed Jegham

Apartheid
World Health Organization: Gaza faces Epidemics; 449 Israeli Attacks on Health Services in Palestine

World Health Organization: Gaza faces Epidemics; 449 Israeli Attacks on Health Services in Palestine

( Middle East Monitor ) – World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday confirmed more than 449 attacks on health services in […]

Middle East Monitor

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