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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty
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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and […]

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

08/20/2025 By The Conversation

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

08/20/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

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Climate Crisis:  Severe Heat Wave in Israel Leads to 220 Wildfires on Friday, in Omen of Torrid Future

Climate Crisis: Severe Heat Wave in Israel Leads to 220 Wildfires on Friday, in Omen of Torrid Future

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The land over which Israelis and Palestinians are locked in conflict is itself unstable, subject to the vagaries of human-caused […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Number of Solar PV Panel Installations in Germany hits 3 Million, can cover 10% of Electricity Demand

Number of Solar PV Panel Installations in Germany hits 3 Million, can cover 10% of Electricity Demand

By Jessica Bateman | – Clean Energy Wire / Bloomberg ( Clean Energy Wire ) – The number of solar panel systems in Germany hit […]

Clean Energy Wire

Climate Crisis
Why is 104 °F (40°C) is bearable in a Desert but Lethal in the Tropics

Why is 104 °F (40°C) is bearable in a Desert but Lethal in the Tropics

By Alan Thomas Kennedy-Asser, University of Bristol; Dann Mitchell, University of Bristol; and Eunice Lo, University of Bristol | – (The Conversation) – This year, […]

The Conversation

Bahrain
Saudi Arabia Executes Two Shia Bahrainis on Terrorism Charges in "Grossly Unfair" Trial

Saudi Arabia Executes Two Shia Bahrainis on Terrorism Charges in “Grossly Unfair” Trial

By Leila Saad | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Two Bahraini Shi’a men have been executed in Saudi Arabia following what Amnesty International described […]

Human Rights Watch

China
India, 3rd biggest CO2 Emitter, will Pause new Coal Plants for 5 Years in favor of Batteries, New Solar

India, 3rd biggest CO2 Emitter, will Pause new Coal Plants for 5 Years in favor of Batteries, New Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sibi Arasu at the Associated Press reports that the Indian government is going to pause new coal plants for 5 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

A man without a Strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud   After signing a military decree on 18 May, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

By Rita Issa, University of East Anglia | – It was getting hotter. Frank May got off his mat and padded over to look out […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

The Compulsion to Intervene: Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
Smoking Gun: Trump's Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Smoking Gun: Trump’s Theft of Classified Iran Materials Caught on Tape, May bring him down

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When Trump murdered several people by drone at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020, including Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani, […]

Juan Cole

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