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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Jenin has Long been seen as the Capital of Palestinian Resistance and Militancy -  The Latest Israeli Raid will do little to Shake that Reputation

Jenin has Long been seen as the Capital of Palestinian Resistance and Militancy – The Latest Israeli Raid will do little to Shake that Reputation

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona | – Israeli troops withdrew from Jenin on July 4, 2023 after two days of heavy aerial bombardment and […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Lebanon: Armed Forces Summarily Deporting Syrians

Lebanon: Armed Forces Summarily Deporting Syrians

Lebanese Armed Forces have summarily deported thousands of Syrians, including unaccompanied children, back to Syria between April and May 2023. Syrians in Lebanon are living […]

Human Rights Watch

Corruption
Dear Chief Justice John Roberts: Your Rulings Show that you don't Preside over a Court so much as a Partisan Tribunal

Dear Chief Justice John Roberts: Your Rulings Show that you don’t Preside over a Court so much as a Partisan Tribunal

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Dear  Chief Justice Roberts.  Let me give you a hanky.  All those nasty critics of “your” court, […]

Ted Becker

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu's Remarks on Needing Palestine Authority should Prompt a major Paradigm Shift in Occupied Palestine

Netanyahu’s Remarks on Needing Palestine Authority should Prompt a major Paradigm Shift in Occupied Palestine

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is known to be against the establishment of a Palestinian […]

Ramzy Baroud

Algeria
France's Double Uprising: Will the Earth be Habitable; Will France be Habitable for People of Color?

France’s Double Uprising: Will the Earth be Habitable; Will France be Habitable for People of Color?

By Nicolas Haeringer | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – On June 27, Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old French boy of North African descent was murdered by […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
How Climate Change is causing a Communication Breakdown in the Animal World

How Climate Change is causing a Communication Breakdown in the Animal World

By Mahasweta Saha, Plymouth Marine Laboratory | – What do the following changes have in common? Some ant species are struggling to follow trails, as […]

The Conversation

Batteries
On this 4th of July we need to Declare a War of Independence from Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

On this 4th of July we need to Declare a War of Independence from Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, kicked off the Revolutionary War in earnest, which the Continental Army only […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Iran: New Charges against Journalists

Iran: New Charges against Journalists

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have brought vague “propaganda” and “national security” charges against three journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. The […]

Human Rights Watch

African-Americans
The Supreme Court didn’t Protect Color-Blindness but our Opportunity to Labor under a Hereditary Plutocracy

The Supreme Court didn’t Protect Color-Blindness but our Opportunity to Labor under a Hereditary Plutocracy

By Sam Pizzigati | – ( Inequality.org ) – In our United States today, all of us do not have an “equal opportunity” to become […]

Sam Pizzigati

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