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Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance
Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance

Mehmet Rakipoglu and İbrahim Ozcosar

By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October […]

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Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

Israel’s Latest Strikes on Gaza expose the fragile illusion of Peace

10/21/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

Trump pushing Allies to Buy US Gas is bad Economics and a Climate Catastrophe

10/21/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

By Clare Corbould, Deakin University (The Conversation) – Omar El Akkad does not want you to look away. An award-winning journalist and novelist, El Akkad […]

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Academic Freedom
California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

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Omar Khayyam
Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

The fourth quatrain in Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 first edition of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is: IV Now the New Year is reviving old Desires, […]

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Genocide
The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

Q&A with Dr Steinbock on The Obliteration Doctrine: Part 2 DG Team                   ( Difference Group ) – The second part of Dr Steinbock’s highly topical […]

Dan Steinbock

Donald Trump
“I Have a Nightmare:” How Trump Is Spitting on the Grave of Martin Luther King Jr.

“I Have a Nightmare:” How Trump Is Spitting on the Grave of Martin Luther King Jr.

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On January 20th, Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office with — at least in his mind — an aura of […]

Clarence Lusane

Climate Crisis
State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Meteorological Society has issued its annual climate report, this one summarizing changes in 2024 now that all the […]

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Authoritarianism
New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

New data shows No Kings was One of the largest Days of Protest in US history

The historic number of No Kings Day protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement. Erica Chenoweth, Soha […]

Waging Nonviolence

Environment
Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

Iran’s Nature is under Threat – here’s how better environmental Stewardship can save it

By Shooka Bidarian, United Nations University and Mark Maslin, UCL (The Conversation) – From arid deserts and alpine meadows to dense wetlands and temperate forests, […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Psychopathocracy 3.0

Psychopathocracy 3.0

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 […]

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