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Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East
Donald Trump

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more […]

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

Protesting to San Jose State U. for Firing Tenured Professor Sang Hea Kil for Palestine Protest

06/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

Mahmoud Khalil, Released on Bail from ICE Detention, says “Justice will Prevail”

06/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s New West Bank Entry Rules Further Isolate Occupied Palestinians (HRW)

Israel’s New West Bank Entry Rules Further Isolate Occupied Palestinians (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – New Israeli guidelines on access to the West Bank for foreigners threaten to further isolate Palestinians from loved ones […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
As US-EU Trade Tensions Rise, Conflicting Carbon Tariffs could undermine Climate Efforts

As US-EU Trade Tensions Rise, Conflicting Carbon Tariffs could undermine Climate Efforts

By Noah Kaufman, Columbia University;Chris Bataille, Columbia University; Gautam Jain, Columbia University; and Sagatom Saha, Columbia University | – Rising trade tensions between the U.S. […]

The Conversation

Far Right
Israel's Netanyahu Crumbles before Supreme Court demand he Fire Corrupt Minister, as AG considers Banning Netanyahu Too

Israel’s Netanyahu Crumbles before Supreme Court demand he Fire Corrupt Minister, as AG considers Banning Netanyahu Too

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Carrie Keller-Lynn at The Times of Israel reports that at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was forced to fire […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu's claim of Jewish exclusivity in Palestine must be challenged

Netanyahu’s claim of Jewish exclusivity in Palestine must be challenged

By Iqbal Jassat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The defiant declaration by Benjamin Netanyahu that he is going to press ahead and […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too

Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too

By Daniel Cohan, Rice University | Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of […]

The Conversation

China
Climate Change will Supersede Everything: The Pentagon’s Massive Intelligence Failure on China

Climate Change will Supersede Everything: The Pentagon’s Massive Intelligence Failure on China

( Tomdispatch.com) – Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of […]

Michael T. Klare

Authoritarianism
Is Israel becoming a Middle East Dictatorship under Netanyahu?  110,000 Rally against Gov't

Is Israel becoming a Middle East Dictatorship under Netanyahu? 110,000 Rally against Gov’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 110,000 Israelis protested Saturday night at two big rallies in Tel Aviv. So reports Al Jazeera. The larger of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?

Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report called The Limits to Growth that laid out the damage […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Desalination could give the Middle East Water without damaging marine Life – but it must be managed carefully

Desalination could give the Middle East Water without damaging marine Life – but it must be managed carefully

By Jonathan Chenoweth, University of Surrey and Raya A. Al-Masr, University of Surrey | – (The Conversation) – More than 2 billion people live in […]

The Conversation

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