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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 Ukraine Crisis:  A Classic Security Dilemma

The Ukraine Crisis: A Classic Security Dilemma

( Code Pink) – On December 27 2022, both Russia and Ukraine issued calls for ending the war in Ukraine, but only on non-negotiable terms […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
2022:  Biden Policies Announce the End of the Beginning in Fight against CO2 Emissions

2022: Biden Policies Announce the End of the Beginning in Fight against CO2 Emissions

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In the midst of World War II, on November 10, 1942, Winston Churchill said of the war: “Now this is […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
U.S.-Trained Afghan Soldiers Angry Over Their Plight Are Ready To Join Russia's War Against Ukraine

U.S.-Trained Afghan Soldiers Angry Over Their Plight Are Ready To Join Russia’s War Against Ukraine

By Michael Scollon ( RFE/RL ) – Lost status and a desperate existence in Iran are driving thousands of former Afghan troops — many of […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Climate Crisis
Secret Files reveal how UN Climate Advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP

Secret Files reveal how UN Climate Advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP

By Lucas Amin and Ben Webster | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – The PR firm advising the UN on climate change campaigns has been accused by […]

Open Democracy

Climate Crisis
How Putin’s War and small Islands are accelerating the global Shift to Clean Energy, and What to Watch for in 2023

How Putin’s War and small Islands are accelerating the global Shift to Clean Energy, and What to Watch for in 2023

By Rachel Kyte | – (The Conversation) – The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity […]

The Conversation

Far Right
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being French: Murderer of Kurds 'William M.' Treated with kid Gloves

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being French: Murderer of Kurds ‘William M.’ Treated with kid Gloves

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Last Thursday, one “William M.,” a retired French train conductor, went to the Kurdish Cultural center in the 10th Arondissement […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran: ‘Bloody Friday’ Crackdown This Year’s Deadliest

Iran: ‘Bloody Friday’ Crackdown This Year’s Deadliest

Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – Iranian security forces using unlawful lethal force, killed and wounded several dozen protesters in Zahedan on September 30, […]

Human Rights Watch

BDS
Challenging Israel-inspired Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US

Challenging Israel-inspired Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US

By Tariq Kenney-Shawa | – ( Al-Shabakah) – The Israeli regime’s defenders across the US are ramping up efforts to criminalize the constitutionally protected right […]

Al-Shabaka

Climate Crisis
Ukraine war: Putin has been weaponising energy for years, here’s what to look out for next

Ukraine war: Putin has been weaponising energy for years, here’s what to look out for next

By Thomas Froehlich, King’s College London | – Not since the 1970s oil crisis has the west seen such a focus on energy security. Suddenly […]

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