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My Palestine: An Impossible Exile
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My Palestine: An Impossible Exile

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Mohammad Tarbush, My Palestine: An Impossible Exile (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024) Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– –– It […]

Rümeysa Öztürk freed, as Judge Warns of Grave Threat to Free Speech

Rümeysa Öztürk freed, as Judge Warns of Grave Threat to Free Speech

05/11/2025 By Common Dreams

Syrian Women and Children return to rebuild, leaving Husbands Behind

Syrian Women and Children return to rebuild, leaving Husbands Behind

05/11/2025 By Open Democracy

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Israel returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War

Israel returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ashraf al-Hur reports at al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] that the extremist government in Israel has escalated its military attacks on […]

Juan Cole

Eurasia
Can the Caspian Sea be Saved from turning into an environmental Disaster?

Can the Caspian Sea be Saved from turning into an environmental Disaster?

Written byNurbek Bekmurzaev ( Global Voices ) – The Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water in the world, faces a grim future in […]

Global Voices

Christan Nationalists
Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica ) – For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left […]

ProPublica

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On Int’l Women’s Day:  In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

( Middle East Monitor ) – The conversation on settler-colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, demonstrated clearly in […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

By May Darwich, University of Birmingham (The Conversation) – US president Donald Trump famously called Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi his “favourite dictator” in 2019, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Shamash!  “The Threat”

Shamash! “The Threat”

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Juan Cole

Corruption
Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Here is my column this week for Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch at The Nation Institute. Do check in on his poignant and insightful introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ( RFE/RL ) – Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code […]

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