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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Academic Freedom

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

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 […]

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

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

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Should Congress be inviting  Illiberal Government Leaders Like those of India and Israel to address it? Is it all Right to Boycott Human Rights Offenders?

Should Congress be inviting Illiberal Government Leaders Like those of India and Israel to address it? Is it all Right to Boycott Human Rights Offenders?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Let us imagine a country somewhere in the world, let us call it Qorlu. It has two major ethnic groups, […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Change is Increasing Stress on Thousands of Aging Dams across the US

Climate Change is Increasing Stress on Thousands of Aging Dams across the US

By Hiba Baroud, Vanderbilt University | – Heavy rainfall in the Northeast on June 9-11, 2023, generated widespread flooding, particularly in New York’s Hudson Valley […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Roots of Iraq’s Water Crisis: Upriver Dams along with Climate Change

Roots of Iraq’s Water Crisis: Upriver Dams along with Climate Change

Response of McGuire Gibson, Professor Emeritus of Mesopotamian Architecture , University of Chicago, to Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian […]

McGuire Gibson

Climate Crisis
The Radiance of a Thousand Suns: Can we dodge Two Torrid Disasters of our own Making?

The Radiance of a Thousand Suns: Can we dodge Two Torrid Disasters of our own Making?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In case you hadn’t noticed — and how could you not? — there have been more than 500 (yes, 500-plus!) wildfires […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Is Turkey abandoning Russia to turn back toward the West?

Is Turkey abandoning Russia to turn back toward the West?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Given the decisions announced by Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, some have speculated that […]

Juan Cole

Reproductive Choice
Iowa Passes Harsh anti-Abortion Law that Imperils Women, Physicians and Nurses

Iowa Passes Harsh anti-Abortion Law that Imperils Women, Physicians and Nurses

Anti-Abortion, Women’s Rights, Choice, Health

Iowa Capital Dispatch

Israel/ Palestine
Is Thomas Friedman one Step Closer to Abandoning Zionism?

Is Thomas Friedman one Step Closer to Abandoning Zionism?

Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks   I have long held a deep fascination with the intellectual journey of individuals who undergo profound conversions. Religious or political, witnessing […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
What it means that El Niño is coming on Top of a long-term Trend of Human-driven Global Heating

What it means that El Niño is coming on Top of a long-term Trend of Human-driven Global Heating

By David Armstrong McKay, Stockholm University | – (The Conversation) – The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
The French "Nahel" Protests spring from Systemic Racism, not Immigration or Islam

The French “Nahel” Protests spring from Systemic Racism, not Immigration or Islam

Sousse, Tunisia (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since June 27, every news channel has been covering the recent protests in Paris. On the surface, […]

Mohamed Jegham

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Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

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Abbasid Empire

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard

Juan Cole

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