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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman
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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to turn Israel into a 21st century version of the Flying Dutchman. […]

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

07/27/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

07/27/2025 By ProPublica

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J. Edgar Hoover was the QAnon of his Era, and Martin Luther King Jr. was the Victim of his Dirty Tricks

J. Edgar Hoover was the QAnon of his Era, and Martin Luther King Jr. was the Victim of his Dirty Tricks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ours is an age beset by conspiracy theories, with the fascist QAnon cult at the center of much public lunacy. […]

Juan Cole

racism
How the Right-Wing Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial Division within American society

How the Right-Wing Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s words enables more, not less, racial Division within American society

Hajar Yazdiha, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to […]

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censorship
Saudi Arabia: Government Agents infiltrate Wikipedia, sentence Independent Admins to Prison

Saudi Arabia: Government Agents infiltrate Wikipedia, sentence Independent Admins to Prison

By SMEX | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – The Saudi Arabian government infiltrated Wikipedia by recruiting the organization’s highest ranked administrators in the country to […]

Global Voices

Pentagon
Why does the Pentagon Budget Really Keep Growing? When Democracies Pursue Imperial Dominance it doesn’t End Well

Why does the Pentagon Budget Really Keep Growing? When Democracies Pursue Imperial Dominance it doesn’t End Well

( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine this scenario for a moment: a “great power” watches another major power fight a war in a nearby nation for 10 […]

William J. Astore

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Israeli Opposition Warns of "Civil War," "End of Democracy" as 80,000 Rally against Netanyahu

Israeli Opposition Warns of “Civil War,” “End of Democracy” as 80,000 Rally against Netanyahu

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Amad reports that tens of thousands of Israelis took part on Saturday evening in demonstrations in Tel […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari's execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Dual Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari’s execution plunges Iranian Relations with the West to a new Low

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) – On Saturday 14 January, the Iranian regime executed a 61-year old dual Iranian-British national and a former deputy defence […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Corruption
Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind?  On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

Will Birtherism come back to bite Republicans in the Behind? On top of all his other Lies, is George Santos even a US Citizen?

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – Suspicions grow that not only did new Congressman George Santos (R-NY) fabricate his educational and employment record but that […]

Michael G. Roskin

Climate Crisis
Top 6 Ways 2023 could be a Pivotal Year for Climate Action

Top 6 Ways 2023 could be a Pivotal Year for Climate Action

By Wesley Morgan, Griffith University | – (The Conversation) – Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental […]

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Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: Oceans heating up as though we were Constantly Blowing up Atomic Bombs in them

Climate Crisis: Oceans heating up as though we were Constantly Blowing up Atomic Bombs in them

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released talking points for its report on 2022, warning that the oceans are […]

Juan Cole

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