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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

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Corporations
Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse

Before RR Co. Norfolk Southern Poisoned Palestine, Oh., It Poisoned the Ohio Statehouse

The company plied state lawmakers with cash and lobbied against common sense rail safety measures.   By Jim Hightower | ( Otherwords.org – “The Wreck […]

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Afghanistan
Women’s Sports Going Downhill In Afghanistan As Taliban Denies The Right To Ski

Women’s Sports Going Downhill In Afghanistan As Taliban Denies The Right To Ski

By Mansoor Khosrow | – ( RFE/ RL ) – The majestic mountains in the central province of Bamiyan are known as Afghanistan’s skiing capital. […]

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Bill of Rights
Why Tennessee’s Law limiting Drag Performances likely violates the First Amendment

Why Tennessee’s Law limiting Drag Performances likely violates the First Amendment

By Mark Satta, Wayne State University | – (The Conversation) – On March 2, 2023, Tennessee became the first state to enact a law restricting […]

The Conversation

Corruption
37 Israeli ‘Top Guns’ Boycott Training to Protest Gutting of Courts; Most El Al Pilots decline to fly PM to Italy

37 Israeli ‘Top Guns’ Boycott Training to Protest Gutting of Courts; Most El Al Pilots decline to fly PM to Italy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli Air Force, like its other armed forces, heavily depends on reservists. That was why Egypt was able to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
How to beat the Fracking Frenzy--Lessons from the Campaign that ended it in Ireland

How to beat the Fracking Frenzy–Lessons from the Campaign that ended it in Ireland

The successful Irish anti-fracking struggle offers key insights on community power building for anti-extraction movements all over the world. Jamie Gorman

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
Greening from the Bottom:  Look to the Cities for new Climate Solutions

Greening from the Bottom: Look to the Cities for new Climate Solutions

By Christof Brandtner, EM Lyon Business School | – (The Conversation) – A little over three months after the COP27 climate summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh drew […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Can a Republican Politician Succeed at being MAGA-Lite?  Nikki Haley's Dilemma

Can a Republican Politician Succeed at being MAGA-Lite? Nikki Haley’s Dilemma

By Clarence Lusane | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In 2015, according to the talking points being floated by former South Carolina governor and Republican […]

Tomdispatch

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250,000 Israelis Rally against Netanyahu, Warn of Dictatorship and 'No Liberty in an Occupation State'

250,000 Israelis Rally against Netanyahu, Warn of Dictatorship and ‘No Liberty in an Occupation State’

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – WAFA reports that on Saturday evening some 250,000 Israelis are estimated to have come out in numerous cities to protest […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
All Communities Must Speak Out Against bigotry toward Jews

All Communities Must Speak Out Against bigotry toward Jews

As far-right violence against Jewish people rises, the Jewish idea of an “eruv” can teach us all to enlarge our humanity.   By Svante Myrick […]

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