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Trump, at War with a Shiite Country, knows nothing of Martyrdom or Apocalyptic Hope
Donald Trump

Trump, at War with a Shiite Country, knows nothing of Martyrdom or Apocalyptic Hope

Juan Cole

To the packed crowd, he described Khamenei as a martyr, a spiritual guide, and the physician for pain.

Warriors and Soldiers and the War in Iran

Warriors and Soldiers and the War in Iran

03/07/2026 By Arnold Oliver

As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint

As the Gulf Conflict widens, so does its Environmental Footprint

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Authoritarianism
In Blow to Democracy, British Parliament Votes to Outlaw University and Council Boycotts of Israel amid Gaza Genocide

In Blow to Democracy, British Parliament Votes to Outlaw University and Council Boycotts of Israel amid Gaza Genocide

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On January 10, the UK parliament passed the third and final reading of the anti-boycott bill proposed by […]

Mohammed Samaana

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 […]

Dialogue Earth

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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