Santa Cruz, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – HISTORY is always complicated. ELEMENTARY ETHICS is not. “Do not do to others what is hateful to […]
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In New Tactic, Young Iranian Protesters Knock Off Clerics’ Turbans On The Street
By Golnaz Esfandiari and Hamid Fatemi | – ( RFE/RL ) – Nationwide antiestablishment protests have raged across the Islamic republic since the death of […]
Iranian Women’s Demands for Freedom Must Be Heard
By Rothna Begum, Senior Researcher, Women’s Rights Division | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – The current protests gripping Iran show no signs of […]
Musk’s Twitter won’t Label as False the Whopper that Iran has Sentenced 15,000 Protesters to Die (It is so far 2)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maria Ramirez Uribe at Politifact explains that a wildly inaccurate Instagram post alleging that Iran’s parliament had sentenced 15,000 arrested […]
8 billion people: Four Ways Climate Change and Population Growth combine to threaten Public Health, with Global Consequences
By Maureen Lichtveld, University of Pittsburgh | – There are questions that worry me profoundly as a population- and environmental-health scientist. Will we have enough […]
Case Western Reserve U’s President Confuses Criticism of Israeli Occupation Policies with anti-Semitism: CAF MESA
Middle East Studies Association of North America | Committee on Academic Freedom Committee on Academic Freedom 15 November 2022 Eric W. Kaler President, Case Western […]
Deaf to History’s Questions: A Tale of Two Elizabeths, One Joe, One Donald, and Us
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Britons mourned the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, and understandably so. The outpouring of affection for their long-serving monarch was […]
DOJ finally orders FBI to Investigate Israeli Killing of US Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Israel Sniffs: Will not Cooperate
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AP reports that the Department of Justice gave the Federal Bureau of Investigation the charge of investigating the Israeli killing […]
The Veil in Iran has been an enduring Symbol of Patriarchal Norms – but its Use has Changed depending on Who is in Power
By Amy Motlagh, University of California, Davis | – In images of the uprising that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16, […]
Palestinians and Native Americans are both the Oppressed Indigenous Peoples of their Lands
( Middle East Monitor ) – At a recent conference in Istanbul that brought many Palestinian scholars and activists together to discuss the search for […]
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