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Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza
Democratic Party

Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

Norman Solomon

San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic […]

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

Iran’s Water Crisis Opens A New Front With Israel

08/26/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

‘Green Islam’: how Muslims are powering environmental Action across the World

08/26/2025 By The Conversation

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Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War (Review)

Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War (Review)

Review of Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Greifswald, Germany (Special to Informed […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Iran
Suspected Israeli Drone Strike In Iran Part Of New ‘Containment Strategy’

Suspected Israeli Drone Strike In Iran Part Of New ‘Containment Strategy’

( RFE/ RL ) – A suspected Israeli drone strike hit an Iranian military facility in Isfahan on January 28, in an attack that is […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Arctic
Climate Crisis: Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often, and increasingly melting its Sea Ice

Climate Crisis: Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often, and increasingly melting its Sea Ice

By Pengfei Zhang, Penn State | – (The Conversation) – Atmospheric rivers, those long, powerful streams of moisture in the sky, are becoming more frequent […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Iran's Khamenei admits to holding "Tens of Thousands" of Prisoners of Conscience, Offers Amnesty if they Apologize for anti-Regime Protests

Iran’s Khamenei admits to holding “Tens of Thousands” of Prisoners of Conscience, Offers Amnesty if they Apologize for anti-Regime Protests

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The official website of Iran’s “August Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced Sunday that “tens of thousands” (دهها هزار) of political […]

Juan Cole

China
Was the Chinese Spy Balloon a Sign of Infighting among China's Power Elite?

Was the Chinese Spy Balloon a Sign of Infighting among China’s Power Elite?

Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) – China’s balloon incursion was no accident but an expression of both internal Chinese politics and of its foreign policy. […]

Michael G. Roskin

Israel/ Palestine
International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine

International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine

By Omar Ahmed | – (Middle East Monitor ) – A conference was held in London yesterday, hosted by MEMO entitled “International perspectives on apartheid […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco. The summer before, I’d moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known […]

Rebecca Gordon

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Why is the Biden Administration So Worried about Israel's New Government? (Juan Cole Video Interview)

Why is the Biden Administration So Worried about Israel’s New Government? (Juan Cole Video Interview)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I am interviewed by prominent journalist Steve Clemons, editor at large of the global news site Semafor, for his Al […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
How Russians, Indigenous People and Belarusians are uniting to resist the War in Ukraine

How Russians, Indigenous People and Belarusians are uniting to resist the War in Ukraine

By Eleftheria Kousta | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Anastasia Witts, a U.K.-based arts producer, wasn’t yet out of bed on the morning of […]

Waging Nonviolence

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