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The Ecocide of Gaza
In the past two years, Israeli obliteration has turned Gaza into an uninhabitable death zone. What is less known, however, is that this is the […]
“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25
Quatrain no. 25 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is about the futility of metaphysical teachings in […]
In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom
Juan says: I’m honored to have an essay in this volume on threats to academic freedom and to free speech in the United States since […]
Why Palestinian Statehood is a Prerequisite for Arab-Israeli Peace and Expansion of Abraham Accords
By Simon Mabon, Lancaster University (The Conversation) – Mohammed bin Salman wants to bring Saudi Arabia into the Abraham accords, the network of agreements to […]
The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat
Here is my essay for this week’s Tomdispatch.com. Don’t miss Tom Engelhardt’s canny introduction, in which he points to Donald Trump’s climate denialism as a […]
“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24
Stanza no. 24 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám makes fun, as A. J. Arberry pointed out, […]
Is Venezuela the New Iraq?
By Richard W. Coughlin | November 18, 2025 ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Iraq and Venezuela share an obvious trait: they are oil-rich […]
COP30: 5 Reasons the UN Climate Conference wasn’t the Promised “People’s Summit”
By Simon Chin-Yee, UCL; Mark Maslin, UCL, and Priti Parikh, UCL (The Conversation) – As the sun set on the Amazon, the promise of a […]
The COP30 Climate Meet had One Job, and Totally Crashed and Burned
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – COP30 in Belém, Brazil, has ended without an agreement by member states to reaffirm the phasing out of fossil fuels, […]
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