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Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more […]

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

06/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

06/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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How did Turkish President Erdoğan Survive the Strongest Challenge Yet?

How did Turkish President Erdoğan Survive the Strongest Challenge Yet?

Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won the elections in Türkiye. Again. In power for two decades, first as prime minister […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

censorship
Iranian Journalists Who Broke Mahsa Amini Story Stand Trial Behind Closed Doors

Iranian Journalists Who Broke Mahsa Amini Story Stand Trial Behind Closed Doors

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Here’s what I’ve been following during the past week and what I’m watching for in the days ahead. The Big […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Guns
Georgia College Students can Continue to Bring Handguns to Class, even Concealed: State Supreme Court

Georgia College Students can Continue to Bring Handguns to Class, even Concealed: State Supreme Court

By: Ross Williams –  ( Georgia Recorder ) – Georgia college students can continue to bring their handgun to class after the Supreme Court of […]

Georgia Recorder

Climate Crisis
Looking for Home in an Overheating World: If Emissions continue, Will We all be Migrants Someday?

Looking for Home in an Overheating World: If Emissions continue, Will We all be Migrants Someday?

By Jane Braxton Little ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Greenville, CA — Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on […]

Tomdispatch

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In wake of Mexican Senate Vote to Recognize Palestine, Palestinians seek to upgrade to Full Embassy in Mexico City

In wake of Mexican Senate Vote to Recognize Palestine, Palestinians seek to upgrade to Full Embassy in Mexico City

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Spanish-language Twitter account for Palestine, “Palestino Hoy,” announced on Thursday that the Palestinian delegation in Mexico City will […]

Juan Cole

Democracy
In a post-election Turkey, the country remains divided on political lines

In a post-election Turkey, the country remains divided on political lines

Written byArzu Geybullayeva ( Globalvoices.org) -Showing up at a polling station, as one of the two presidential candidates, in a country-wide election with a pocket […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Gay rights
Pride Month 2023: Erasing LGBTQI+ People is a Crime against Humanity

Pride Month 2023: Erasing LGBTQI+ People is a Crime against Humanity

  By Susan Dicklitch-Nelson ( Pennsylvania Capital-Star ) – Twenty-five years ago, at the Christmas table, my uncle suggested that “all gay people should be […]

Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Agriculture
Time to Dial it Back: We Humans have Exceeded the Boundaries of 80% of the Planet’s Key Systems

Time to Dial it Back: We Humans have Exceeded the Boundaries of 80% of the Planet’s Key Systems

By Steven J Lade, Australian National University; Ben Stewart-Koster, Griffith University; Stuart Bunn, Griffith University; Syezlin Hasan, Griffith University; Xuemei Bai, Australian National University | […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis:  Severe Heat Wave in Israel Leads to 220 Wildfires on Friday, in Omen of Torrid Future

Climate Crisis: Severe Heat Wave in Israel Leads to 220 Wildfires on Friday, in Omen of Torrid Future

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The land over which Israelis and Palestinians are locked in conflict is itself unstable, subject to the vagaries of human-caused […]

Juan Cole

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