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Amnesty: So-Called Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ becoming Smokescreen for continued Israeli Genocide
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Amnesty: So-Called Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ becoming Smokescreen for continued Israeli Genocide

Juan Cole

Israeli officials responsible for orchestrating, overseeing and materially committing genocide remain in power

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How Turkiye Plans to use the Spotlight of hosting the next UN Climate Summit

How Turkiye Plans to use the Spotlight of hosting the next UN Climate Summit

11/28/2025 By The Conversation

How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian Hedonists

How ‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ inspired Victorian Hedonists

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52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

By Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University (The Conversation) – Australian Muslim communities have been calling for official recognition of Islamophobia as a serious social problem […]

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censorship
Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Protesting Claremont Colleges Library Censorship of “Policing Palestine”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the Claremont Colleges library condemning the censorship of the […]

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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

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Arab World
Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

By Yousef Ibrahim ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders in Doha was not simply an unsuccessful military operation—it […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

( Tomdispatch.com ) – That was President Trump’s blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his […]

Michael T. Klare

Archaeology
Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]

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censorship
Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Yemen: Journalists under Assault

Warring Parties’ Systematic Violations Against Media Freedom Yemen’s warring parties – particularly the Houthis, the Southern Transitional Council, and the Yemeni government – have committed […]

Human Rights Watch

Brazil
The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

The Dominican friar was a key actor in the ‘Zero Hunger’ program in Brazil Written by Fernanda Canofre

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China
Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

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