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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption

Dan Steinbock

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms

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Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump

12/15/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse

12/15/2025 By The Conversation

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It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:  Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Sanjay Gupta on the New Neurobiology of Pain

BY Richard Penaskovic | – Review of Sanjay Gupta, It Doesn’t Have to Hurt:Your Smart Guide to a Pain-free Life. (New York: Simon & Schuster, […]

Richard Penaskovic

Iran
“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:17

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

Quatrain 17 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues the theme that kingly glory quickly fades. XVII. They say […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

By Donald Rothwell, Australian National University (The Conversation) – The Israel Defence Force has intercepted a flotilla of humanitarian vessels seeking to deliver aid to […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to Northwestern University expressing concern about its flawed compulsory anti-bias training and its […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Arab World
Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Israel launched an attack on Doha in September 2025, Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit. […]

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

  by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari prime […]

Binoy Kampmark

China
How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

As the Military Occupies your Town, Give them Flowers and a Note

Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]

Arnold Oliver

Donald Trump
The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

The Fragile Peace of Trump’s Gaza Plan

  by Ronny P Sasmita ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Gaza plan unveiled by Donald Trump and reluctantly accepted by Israeli Prime Minister […]

Middle East Monitor

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