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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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The Republican Sleight-of-Hand: McCarthy Failed on his first Try because He is George Santos

The Republican Sleight-of-Hand: McCarthy Failed on his first Try because He is George Santos

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican Party failed to elect a Speaker of the House on Tuesday. The ostensible reason is that 20 of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Jewish supremacy is state policy, says Netanyahu

Jewish supremacy is state policy, says Netanyahu

( Middle East Monitor ) – American Jewish leaders are right to be worried. As Benjamin Netanyahu peels away at the façade that has maintained […]

Middle East Monitor

Employment
Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage

Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage

By Casey Quinlan | – ( Minnesota Reformer ) – Of the 20 states that have failed to raise the minimum wage above the federal […]

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Southwest’s Meltdown: Stock Buybacks, High Exec Pay, and Neglected Software Upgrades

Southwest’s Meltdown: Stock Buybacks, High Exec Pay, and Neglected Software Upgrades

() Inequality.org) – For America’s rich and powerful, the new year is beginning in a most inauspicious fashion. Millions of Americans are once again fuming […]

Sam Pizzigati

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Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel's Illegal Squatting in Palestine?

Will the International Court of Justice finally give a Verdict against Israel’s Illegal Squatting in Palestine?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution entitled “Israeli Practices that affect the Human […]

Juan Cole

nuclear weapons
Imagining a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Imagining a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – January 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Authoritarianism
Clampdown Reported In  Iranian Kurdistan After Slain Protesters Mourned

Clampdown Reported In Iranian Kurdistan After Slain Protesters Mourned

By Ardeshir Tayebi | – ( RFE/RL) – Demonstrators in the western Iranian city of Javanrud were set on by security forces and have reportedly […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

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100 years of Stan Lee: how the Comic Book King challenged Prejudice

100 years of Stan Lee: how the Comic Book King challenged Prejudice

By Alex Fitch, University of Brighton | – December 28 2022 marks 100 years since the birth of the world’s most famous comic book writer: […]

The Conversation

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Rabbi Close to Religious Extremists in Israeli Gov't says Gay Speaker "Diseased," attracting "Evil" on People

Rabbi Close to Religious Extremists in Israeli Gov’t says Gay Speaker “Diseased,” attracting “Evil” on People

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al-Hadath reports that 300 former Israeli soldiers have written a letter to their new government pleading with it not to […]

Juan Cole

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