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A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran:  When Journalists are the Target
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A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran: When Journalists are the Target

Fariba Amini

“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” – ― Stefan […]

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

09/03/2025 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Researching the Roots of War to Fight Militarism

Researching the Roots of War to Fight Militarism

09/03/2025 By William D. Hartung

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Bashar al-Assad
Sanctions or Assad: What is blocking Aid from entering northern Syria?

Sanctions or Assad: What is blocking Aid from entering northern Syria?

Sulaiman Lkaderi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – As the death toll from the earthquakes which rocked Turkiye and Syria continues to rise, […]

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia
The Importance of Addressing Institutional Islamophobia: Intelligence Agencies use Lazy Stereotypes

The Importance of Addressing Institutional Islamophobia: Intelligence Agencies use Lazy Stereotypes

By Baljit Nagra, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and Paula Maurutto, University of Toronto | – (The Conversation) – There has been an uproar recently among […]

The Conversation

Anti-intellectualism
KKK without the Robes: DeSantis has gutted Florida Education, Cancelled Black History and Criminalized  LGBTQ+ People

KKK without the Robes: DeSantis has gutted Florida Education, Cancelled Black History and Criminalized LGBTQ+ People

Informed Comment is introducing guest Feature posts occasionally, as Editor-in-Chief Juan Cole steps back from his unprecedented and grueling routine of writing a blog essay […]

Dan Dinello

Islamophobia
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, by Rizwaan Sabir (Review)

The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, by Rizwaan Sabir (Review)

Review of Rizwaan Sabir, The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and The Security State (London: Pluto Press, 2022.) Greifswald, Germany (Special to Informed Comment) – In May […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Authoritarianism
The New McCarthyism and the (True) One-Party State in America

The New McCarthyism and the (True) One-Party State in America

Note for TomDispatch Readers: I hate to bother you when you were so wonderful in helping keep this website afloat with contributions as last year […]

Tom Engelhardt

NATO
Russia announces its suspension from last Nuclear Arms Agreement with the US, escalating Nuclear Tension

Russia announces its suspension from last Nuclear Arms Agreement with the US, escalating Nuclear Tension

By Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – (The Conversation) – After decades of progress on limiting the buildup […]

The Conversation

Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders, "Embarrassed" by "racist" Israeli Government, Threatens to Withhold Aid

Sen. Bernie Sanders, “Embarrassed” by “racist” Israeli Government, Threatens to Withhold Aid

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came on Face the Nation Sunday. In the course of the interview, Sanders lashed out at […]

Juan Cole

China
China Dominates Solar and Wind Energy:  Can the U.S. and Europe Finally Catch Up?

China Dominates Solar and Wind Energy: Can the U.S. and Europe Finally Catch Up?

By Michael Jacobs, University of Sheffield | – Climate change policy has entered a new era. The growing row between the United States and the […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Amid Massive Natural Disaster, Turkey’s Erdogan Wields Censorship and Prepares for Dicey Polls

Amid Massive Natural Disaster, Turkey’s Erdogan Wields Censorship and Prepares for Dicey Polls

Written byCivic Media Observatory   This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. It features a summary of a year-long research on […]

Global Voices

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