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Climate Crisis could drive 200 million Africans to Extreme Hunger by 2050
By Philip Kofi Adom, University of the Witwatersrand | – (The Conversation) – African countries will suffer significant economic loss after 2050 if global warming […]
Invisible No More: The Gov’t could Soon include Americans of Middle East and N. African Origin in its Data
By Simon Marshall-Shah | ( Michigan Advance ) – Without equitable data systems, governmental policies will always come up short of fairly representing all of […]
Purim at the Time of Genocide
Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Jewish holiday of Purim, related in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from a genocide. How to […]
Jared Kushner’s Shameful Remarks on Gaza: “I would do my best to move the people out”
( Middle East Monitor ) – “It’s unfortunate that no one’s taking in the refugees,” lamented former White House advisor during the Trump administration Jared […]
If America were a Trumpian Autocracy: The Lies we’d be Told about War (and so much Else)
( Tomdispatch.com ) – We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, to live under […]
The Prospect of Mass Famine in Gaza is beginning to Change Minds in Washington
By Jonathan Este, The Conversation | – (The Conversation) – As the casualty count on the Gaza Strip approaches 32,000 people, in itself a terrible […]
Is Canada’s Decision to cut Arms Sales to Israel a Bellwether for NATO?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The vote in the Canadian parliament this week to halt new arms exports to Israel is of great symbolic importance […]
New Islands are being built at Sea – But they won’t Help Millions made Homeless by sea-level Rise
By Alastair Bonnett, Newcastle University | Dubai’s famous Palm Jumeirah is not the only man-made island to have emerged from the sea this century. Over […]
Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Joseph R. Biden President of the United States Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human […]









