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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line
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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Braga, Portugal and and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the final days of Israel’s eleven-day war with Iran, the targeted […]

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

06/28/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

06/28/2025 By The Conversation

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Prophecies, Then and Now:   My Life at World's End

Prophecies, Then and Now: My Life at World’s End

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy” in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Hypocrisy:  Putin should be Punished as a War Criminal, but so Should many in Washington, D.C.

Hypocrisy: Putin should be Punished as a War Criminal, but so Should many in Washington, D.C.

Vancouver (Feature, Special to Informed Comment) – It’s true – Russian president Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. As I wrote when the conflict with […]

Peter G. Prontzos

Climate Crisis
Calls for a ‘Green’ Ramadan revive Islam’s long Tradition of Sustainability and Care for the Planet

Calls for a ‘Green’ Ramadan revive Islam’s long Tradition of Sustainability and Care for the Planet

By Noorzehra Zaidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County | – For many Muslims breaking fast in mosques around the world this Ramadan, something will be […]

The Conversation

Arab World
On World Water Day:  By 2036, 18 of World’s Water-Scarce Countries will be in Middle East

On World Water Day: By 2036, 18 of World’s Water-Scarce Countries will be in Middle East

    Elif Selin Calik CalikSelin     ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Middle East may have an abundance of oil and gas, […]

Middle East Monitor

Reproductive Choice
Texas Plaintiffs targeting Abortion Pill want Judge to Overrule FDA: Why that might not even be Possible

Texas Plaintiffs targeting Abortion Pill want Judge to Overrule FDA: Why that might not even be Possible

By: Sofia Resnick ( Florida Phoenix) – At the center of the federal anti-abortion lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the abortion drug mifepristone […]

Florida Phoenix

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No, Mr. Smotrich, Palestinians are not New in History, and all Nationalisms are Modern, including the Israeli

No, Mr. Smotrich, Palestinians are not New in History, and all Nationalisms are Modern, including the Israeli

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bezalel Smotrich in a speech in Paris over the weekend maintained that there are no Palestinians and that the whole […]

Juan Cole

Israel Lobbies
For the first time in US History, Sympathy for Palestinians has overtaken Sympathy for Israelis among Democrats

For the first time in US History, Sympathy for Palestinians has overtaken Sympathy for Israelis among Democrats

US sympathy for Palestinians at unprecedented level as Israel’s image is hit ( Middle East Monitor ) – For the first time in US history, […]

Middle East Monitor

Oceans
"Plasticosis:"  Seabirds that swallow Plastic Waste have Diseased, Scarred Stomachs

“Plasticosis:” Seabirds that swallow Plastic Waste have Diseased, Scarred Stomachs

By Matthew Savoca, Stanford University | – As a conservation biologist who studies plastic ingestion by marine wildlife, I can count on the same question […]

The Conversation

Congress
A Highway to Peace or a Highway to Hell?  The Vast Power of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

A Highway to Peace or a Highway to Hell? The Vast Power of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

( Tomdispatch.com) – In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in […]

William J. Astore

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