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Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Donald Trump

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal […]

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century Judge and Ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his Adventures

07/01/2025 By The Conversation

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

Cow most Sacred: Why Military Spending remains Untouchable

07/01/2025 By Andrew J. Bacevich

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IEA: Peak Fossil Fuels will come in 2025, as Renewables are Turbo-Charged by Russia-Ukraine War and Energy Crisis

IEA: Peak Fossil Fuels will come in 2025, as Renewables are Turbo-Charged by Russia-Ukraine War and Energy Crisis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Fatih Birol, among the world’s foremost energy economists, has a new report at the International Energy Agency, which he directs. […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
With his Dangerous Antisemitism and Racist Stereotypes, Ye has made himself a MAGA Patsy

With his Dangerous Antisemitism and Racist Stereotypes, Ye has made himself a MAGA Patsy

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Kanye West, who now goes by just “Ye,” has transformed himself from a global rap and fashion icon, […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Algeria
French-Algerian War: 60 Years on, what is behind France’s reconciliation Agenda?

French-Algerian War: 60 Years on, what is behind France’s reconciliation Agenda?

By Jonathan Lewis, Bangor University | – (The Conversation) – If you cross the Seine in the centre of Paris at the iconic Pont Saint-Michel […]

The Conversation

Neoliberalism
Still the Other America: The Scandal of Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth

Still the Other America: The Scandal of Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ours is an ever more unequal world, even if that subject is ever less attended to in this country. In his […]

Liz Theoharis

Dissent
Iran: Police fire on some of the Thousands of Demonstrators Commemorating 40th day after Mahsa Amini's Death

Iran: Police fire on some of the Thousands of Demonstrators Commemorating 40th day after Mahsa Amini’s Death

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Wednesday was the fortieth day after the death of the Kurdish young woman, Mahsa “Zhina” Amini, 22, in the custody […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Ukraine is Perfect for Wind Power, which would Help it and Europe Escape Russian Fossil Gas Blackmail

Ukraine is Perfect for Wind Power, which would Help it and Europe Escape Russian Fossil Gas Blackmail

Buffalo, NY (Special to Informed Comment) – Until recently, the reasons for Europeans to switch the sourcing of electricity from coal, methane (“natural”) gas and […]

Dave Bradley

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Gaza’s Food System has been Stretched to Breaking Point by Israel

Palestinian Gaza’s Food System has been Stretched to Breaking Point by Israel

By Georgina McAllister, Coventry University | – “Control oil, and you control nations; control food and you control people.” This aphorism, often attributed to Henry […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
The Fossil Free Research Movement is taking Universities by Storm

The Fossil Free Research Movement is taking Universities by Storm

By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – When over 40 Cambridge students and academics occupied the elite U.K. university’s BP Institute earlier […]

Waging Nonviolence

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Israel's Racism Controversy over the "Problematic" "Arab Womb."  Should Palestinian-Israelis be fined for Having Children?

Israel’s Racism Controversy over the “Problematic” “Arab Womb.” Should Palestinian-Israelis be fined for Having Children?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Adnan Abu Aamer writing at the pan-Arab newspaper Arabi 21, reviews the controversy roiling the Palestinian-Israeli community, over a physician’s […]

Juan Cole

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