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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Africa
Sudan: the longer the Conflict Lasts, the higher the Risk of a regional War

Sudan: the longer the Conflict Lasts, the higher the Risk of a regional War

By May Darwich, University of Birmingham | – The 2019 Sudan uprisings that ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir and installed a military-civilian transitional government gave […]

The Conversation

China
Can the U.S. Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?

Can the U.S. Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?

( Code Pink) – In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans that the decline the […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Arms Sales
This is not Your Grandfather’s Military-Industrial Complex:  Unwarranted Influence

This is not Your Grandfather’s Military-Industrial Complex: Unwarranted Influence

By Ben Freeman and William D. Hartung ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than […]

Tomdispatch

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Yes,  Mr. DeSantis, Palestinians are Indigenous, Descended from the Canaanites, and Palestinian Identity is not New

Yes, Mr. DeSantis, Palestinians are Indigenous, Descended from the Canaanites, and Palestinian Identity is not New

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here is Part 2 of my argument with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis concerning his uninformed and bigoted comments about Palestinians. […]

Juan Cole

Civil Rights
Rep. Tlaib, reproductive rights Advocates call for U.S. Supreme Court Reform amid Ethics Scandals

Rep. Tlaib, reproductive rights Advocates call for U.S. Supreme Court Reform amid Ethics Scandals

By: Ken Coleman –     ( Michigan Advance ) – During a Wednesday news conference in Detroit, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) joined reproductive […]

Michigan Advance

Authoritarianism
Tunisia Doubles Down on Democratic Rollback

Tunisia Doubles Down on Democratic Rollback

Published in: Foreign Policy Eric Goldstein Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division   goldsteinricky ( Human Rights Watch ) – Some coups and […]

Human Rights Watch

Iraq
What the Iraq War can teach the US about avoiding a Quagmire in Ukraine – 3 key Lessons

What the Iraq War can teach the US about avoiding a Quagmire in Ukraine – 3 key Lessons

By Patrick James, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – Leaked Pentagon papers showed in early April 2023 that the U.S. is […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Turkiye opens Europe's Largest Solar Plant, with 3 mn. homemade Panels

Turkiye opens Europe’s Largest Solar Plant, with 3 mn. homemade Panels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Europe’s biggest solar farm has come online, and its location is a surprise. It is near Konya, Turkiye (Turkey). Konya, […]

Juan Cole

BDS Occupied Territories
Barcelona, Liège, Oslo: The Movement to Boycott Illegal Israeli Squatters in Palestine moves to Municipalities

Barcelona, Liège, Oslo: The Movement to Boycott Illegal Israeli Squatters in Palestine moves to Municipalities

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud A succession of events starting in Barcelona, Spain, in February, and followed in Liège, Belgium, and Oslo, Norway, in April sent […]

Ramzy Baroud

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