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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up
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The Current Iran War will Likely end Soon, but the Arms Race will Heat Up

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

US joins Israel in Attack on Iran, ushering in a New Era of Impunity

06/23/2025 By The Conversation

No Kings!  This is What Democracy Looks Like

No Kings! This is What Democracy Looks Like

06/23/2025 By Tomdispatch

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The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting. And this is bad News for Humanity

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting. And this is bad News for Humanity

By Marta Moreno Ibáñez, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | – (The Conversation) – Ottawa’s famous Rideau Canal, which turns into the world’s largest […]

The Conversation

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Mysterious Wave Of Sickness Hits Iranian Schoolgirls, Amid Speculation Over Gov’t Poisoning

Mysterious Wave Of Sickness Hits Iranian Schoolgirls, Amid Speculation Over Gov’t Poisoning

A spate of illnesses in schools in the Iranian city of Qom has prompted public anger, with some accusing the government of negligence.    ( […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

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Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians

Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – I was horrified to watch the February 22 Israeli army assault on Nablus where I was born. I grew […]

Mohammed Samaana

Authoritarianism
End the "Citizens United" Ruling with a "Democracy for All Amendment"

End the “Citizens United” Ruling with a “Democracy for All Amendment”

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the United States government has been privatized by the Citizens United ruling of the SCOTUS. Government is […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Authoritarianism
Are Western sanctions on Iran making a difference?

Are Western sanctions on Iran making a difference?

By Amin Saikal, The University of Western Australia | – (The Conversation) – The Iranian Islamic regime has been seriously challenged since the start of […]

The Conversation

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How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War:  Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

How a Nuclear Power Plant Became a Tool of War: Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

By Joshua Frank | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that […]

Tomdispatch

Antarctica
Arctic and Antarctic Ice Sheets in Danger if we blow Past Paris Limit of 1.5° C. (2.7° F)  extra Heating

Arctic and Antarctic Ice Sheets in Danger if we blow Past Paris Limit of 1.5° C. (2.7° F) extra Heating

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jun-Young Park et al. write in Nature Communications that the collapse of the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets may come […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Haaretz:  Israel has erected ‘a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime’

Haaretz: Israel has erected ‘a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime’

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has erected “a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime,” the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
Tunisia: President Intensifies Attacks on Judicial Independence

Tunisia: President Intensifies Attacks on Judicial Independence

Human Rights Watch – (Tunis) –  Tunisian authorities should immediately reinstate judges and prosecutors President Kais Saied arbitrarily dismissed as part of what he called an […]

Human Rights Watch

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