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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love
Donald Trump

Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love

Janelle Carlson

The federal government has threatened to starve Minnesota by cutting off SNAP, WIC and other USDA funded programs as retribution.

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres

01/17/2026 By Human Rights Watch

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

The Saudi-UAE Bust-Up over Yemen reflects Rift over Vision for Region

01/17/2026 By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Climate Crisis
Global warming on course for Destabilizing 5.2° F. (2.9° C) Rise, UN report warns

Global warming on course for Destabilizing 5.2° F. (2.9° C) Rise, UN report warns

Catherine Early ( China Dialogue ) – Countries must make far greater efforts to implement their climate strategies this decade to stand a chance of […]

China Dialogue

Genocide
The Int’l Court of Justice Case is a Chance to hold Israel and the US to Account for Genocide

The Int’l Court of Justice Case is a Chance to hold Israel and the US to Account for Genocide

( Code Pink) – On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Batteries
California’s Great Battery Revolution Allows Closure of Peaker Gas Plants and move to 100% Wind, Solar, Water

California’s Great Battery Revolution Allows Closure of Peaker Gas Plants and move to 100% Wind, Solar, Water

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewables revolution around the world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A fourth factor is now swiftly […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
In Earth's Hottest Year on Record, an Unprecedented 28  Billion-dollar Disasters struck US

In Earth’s Hottest Year on Record, an Unprecedented 28 Billion-dollar Disasters struck US

By Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton | – National weather analysts released their 2023 billion-dollar disasters list on Jan. 9, just as 2024 was getting […]

The Conversation

Counter-Terrorism
Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not:  The Stubborn Legacy of America’s Response to 9/11

Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not: The Stubborn Legacy of America’s Response to 9/11

( Tomdispatch.com ) – This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Featured
How Israel's "Send Palestinians to Congo" plan Evokes British Colonial Plans to send Jews to Uganda

How Israel’s “Send Palestinians to Congo” plan Evokes British Colonial Plans to send Jews to Uganda

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – Nothing illuminates the mutant perversion of Zionism under Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) more clearly than this: […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Displaced and Refugees
Nowhere to Run – The world’s Refugees say, ‘Gimme Shelter’

Nowhere to Run – The world’s Refugees say, ‘Gimme Shelter’

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Think of Donald Trump as, in his own fashion, a creature of climate change. After all, in 2015, he descended that […]

Rebecca Gordon

Iran
Muslims and Jews:  Remembering Jewish School Days in Pre-Revolutionary Tehran

Muslims and Jews: Remembering Jewish School Days in Pre-Revolutionary Tehran

( The Chukogu Shimbun ) – HIROSHIMA —The elegant art deco building of Ettefagh, Iran’s famous Jewish school, still stands on a leafy avenue adjacent […]

Nassrine Azimi

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Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shibley Telhami and Michael Hammer have a new commentary out based on their polling at the University of Maryland’s Critical […]

Juan Cole

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