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European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel
European Union

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

09/12/2025 By The Conversation

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

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Authoritarianism
Trump 2.0 and the Real Deep State

Trump 2.0 and the Real Deep State

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, on a commuter train, I ran into an acquaintance who works for a government agency here in Washington, D.C. Soon […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Featured
Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving;  Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime

Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving; Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations warned on Saturday that half the population of Gaza is now starving. The World Food Programme (WFP) […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Tipping Points are Nearer than you Think — Our New Report Warns of Catastrophic Risk

Climate Tipping Points are Nearer than you Think — Our New Report Warns of Catastrophic Risk

By James Dyke, University of Exeter and David Armstrong McKay, Stockholm University | – It’s now almost inevitable that 2023 will be the warmest year […]

The Conversation

Arab World
Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia ready for a major Shift in its Middle East Policy?

Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia ready for a major Shift in its Middle East Policy?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Gaza was among the main topics on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrived in the […]

Ramzy Baroud

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On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza are orders of Magnitude Worse than those of Russia in Ukraine

On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza are orders of Magnitude Worse than those of Russia in Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has spent most of its diplomatic energy since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine marshaling […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Why Yemen’s Houthis are Intervening in the Israel-Hamas Conflict and how it Could Disrupt Global Shipping

Why Yemen’s Houthis are Intervening in the Israel-Hamas Conflict and how it Could Disrupt Global Shipping

By Leena Adel, Curtin University; and Ben Rich, Curtin University | – In recent days, three Israeli-linked commercial vessels were targeted by ballistic missiles and […]

The Conversation

censorship
Concerns about Treatment of Faculty Teaching Israel-Palestine by U of Arizona’s College of Education

Concerns about Treatment of Faculty Teaching Israel-Palestine by U of Arizona’s College of Education

Letter to the president of the University of Arizona expressing concern about the College of Education’s treatment of two faculty members by Committee on Academic […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Anti-intellectualism
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

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