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Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
Donald Trump

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]

Stephen Colbert:  “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”

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Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

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Caution: Children at Work: The Return of Child Labor shows the Decline of the Right is Bottomless

Caution: Children at Work: The Return of Child Labor shows the Decline of the Right is Bottomless

By Steve Fraser ( Tomdispatch.com ) – An aged Native-American chieftain was visiting New York City for the first time in 1906. He was curious about […]

Tomdispatch

al-Qaeda
When Foreign Policy Elites Manipulate the Public into War, the First Amendment is the First Casualty

When Foreign Policy Elites Manipulate the Public into War, the First Amendment is the First Casualty

Eau Claire, WI (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – United States presidents have repeatedly waged wars with tacit congressional approval and distorted narratives at the […]

Ali Abootalebi

Sudan
Khartoum: The city I fled; the city I love

Khartoum: The city I fled; the city I love

Written byرصيف 22 Translated byMariam A. Translated byRaseef22 Read this post in عربي   This piece was first published by Raseef22 and was written by […]

Global Voices

Feminism
Rising Sexual Violence in Sudan Conflict Reflects Entrenched Patriarchy - But Women and Girls are Fighting Back

Rising Sexual Violence in Sudan Conflict Reflects Entrenched Patriarchy – But Women and Girls are Fighting Back

By Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth | – Watching and hearing the horrifying reports of violence and savagery in Sudan, those of us working to […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
When it Comes to Defining Antisemitism, it’s Official: the IHRA, which forbids Criticizing Israel, is no Longer the only Game in Town

When it Comes to Defining Antisemitism, it’s Official: the IHRA, which forbids Criticizing Israel, is no Longer the only Game in Town

Joe Sterling     ( Georgia Recorder ) – The battle over a controversial definition of antisemitism that forbids criticism of Israel has taken a […]

Georgia Recorder

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Jenin and Sharpeville: Systemic Colonial Violence in Apartheid Israel and South Africa

Jenin and Sharpeville: Systemic Colonial Violence in Apartheid Israel and South Africa

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The relationship of the Jewish-dominated Israeli state to the Muslim and Christian Palestinians of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and […]

Juan Cole

Health Care
The Journey to Medicare’s 58th Anniversary

The Journey to Medicare’s 58th Anniversary

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — The most successful U. S. health insurance program, Medicare, was enacted ln July,1965, to provide health insurance for […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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 […]

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