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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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Israel/ Palestine
The Humanitarian Pause in Gaza Proves Diplomacy Works: Now we need a Real Ceasefire

The Humanitarian Pause in Gaza Proves Diplomacy Works: Now we need a Real Ceasefire

A quick FAQ on the agreement between Israel and Hamas to release hostages and pause the fighting. By Khury Petersen-Smith and Phyllis Bennis | – […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Israel/ Palestine
In the Face of Death, Destruction and Displacement, Beauty plays a Vital Role in Gaza

In the Face of Death, Destruction and Displacement, Beauty plays a Vital Role in Gaza

By Stephanie Acker, Clark University | – A small group of children in Gaza sit on a lavender and white blanket around a small tray […]

The Conversation

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50 Israeli Hostages to be exchanged for 150 Palestinian "Prisoners" -- Why the Prisoners are also Hostages

50 Israeli Hostages to be exchanged for 150 Palestinian “Prisoners” — Why the Prisoners are also Hostages

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Qatar successfully brokered the exchange of 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas for 150 Palestinians held […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Israel's Sustained Bombing Created Massive Gaza Disease Risk: Overcrowded Shelters, Dirty Water and breakdown of Basic Sanitation

Israel’s Sustained Bombing Created Massive Gaza Disease Risk: Overcrowded Shelters, Dirty Water and breakdown of Basic Sanitation

By Yara M. Asi, University of Central Florida | – (The Conversation) – After more than a month of being subjected to sustained bombing, the […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
When Palestinians “Die” and Israelis get “Killed” in the same War

When Palestinians “Die” and Israelis get “Killed” in the same War

Written bySafa Written byMariam A. Federal Building, San Francisco, October 20, 2023. Hundreds of people from many backgrounds came together outside Senator Nancy Pelosi’s office, […]

Global Voices

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The Israeli Right Wing's Genocidal Dream of the "River to the Sea"

The Israeli Right Wing’s Genocidal Dream of the “River to the Sea”

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – While the US mainstream media and most political leaders have condemned ceasefire rallies for embracing the cry “from the […]

Mark Karlin

Authoritarianism
The Media must stop Enabling Trump's Attention-Seeking use of Fascist Rhetoric

The Media must stop Enabling Trump’s Attention-Seeking use of Fascist Rhetoric

By Robert Danisch, University of Waterloo | – Donald Trump is campaigning for the presidency of the United States the same way that Adolf Hitler […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
The Humanitarian Paradigm and the Normalization of Ethnic Cleansing

The Humanitarian Paradigm and the Normalization of Ethnic Cleansing

by Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – The despicable diplomacy which is allowing Israel to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza is spoken […]

Middle East Monitor

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Having Vanquished Gaza's Hospitals, Israel Turns to bombing Schools, Killing Dozens

Having Vanquished Gaza’s Hospitals, Israel Turns to bombing Schools, Killing Dozens

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Gaza Ministry of Health announced Sunday that on the previous day at least 80 people were killed by the […]

Juan Cole

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