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The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat
Climate Crisis

The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization Under Threat

Juan Cole

As it turns out the high-tech sector that has produced so many billionaires isn’t pro-environment; instead simply pro-billionaire

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Why Palestinian Statehood is a Prerequisite for Arab-Israeli Peace and Expansion of Abraham Accords

Why Palestinian Statehood is a Prerequisite for Arab-Israeli Peace and Expansion of Abraham Accords

11/24/2025 By The Conversation

“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24

“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24

11/24/2025 By Juan Cole

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Pentagon Admits Failure in ‘War on Terror’ in Africa, as Attacks increase 75,000%

Pentagon Admits Failure in ‘War on Terror’ in Africa, as Attacks increase 75,000%

( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, […]

Nick Turse

Antisemitism
Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza

Confessions of an Ex-Zionist: My Judaism will not stand for the Mass Slaughter in Gaza

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – I grieve for the people of Israel and Palestine, both of whom are being abused and terrorized […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Colonialism
Britain: Its Empire and Corporations, and Their Current Traces

Britain: Its Empire and Corporations, and Their Current Traces

Review of Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 2023. Munich (Special to Informed Comment) – […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Israel/ Palestine
Americans Want a Ceasefire. It's Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch

Americans Want a Ceasefire. It’s Our Politicians Who Are Out of Touch

By Farrah Hassen ( Otherwords ) – Two years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, […]

OtherWords

Israel/ Palestine
‘We remain Afraid of the Future’ – how Palestinian Children’s Optimism was Fading even before this Crisis

‘We remain Afraid of the Future’ – how Palestinian Children’s Optimism was Fading even before this Crisis

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total number of children […]

The Conversation

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Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov't Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Catastrophic Ethnic Cleansing

Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov’t Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Catastrophic Ethnic Cleansing

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Maya Angelou wisely advised, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Members of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Nuremberg Charter and the War on Gaza

The Nuremberg Charter and the War on Gaza

( Counterpunch ) – “In preparation for the Nazi war crimes trials in 1945, representatives of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States […]

Richard Drake

censorship
The University of Pennsylvania must Defend its Faculty’s Right to Condemn War Crimes

The University of Pennsylvania must Defend its Faculty’s Right to Condemn War Crimes

Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu   John Jackson Provost, […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arms Sales
Bad Times in Gaza and Ukraine:  Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex

Bad Times in Gaza and Ukraine: Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The New York Times headline said it all: “Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales.” The conflicts in Gaza, […]

William D. Hartung

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