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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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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Top 8 Political and Geopolitical Shifts in the Middle East in 2022

Top 8 Political and Geopolitical Shifts in the Middle East in 2022

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We saw a lot of pivotal developments in the Middle East this year, including the impact of climate change in […]

Juan Cole

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