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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

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Syria
Syria: Parties to the Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic  (HRW)

Syria: Parties to the Conflict Aggravate Cholera Epidemic (HRW)

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are exacerbating an acute water crisis that is believed to have given rise to the deadly cholera […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
With Israeli Expulsionists in Power, US SecState Blinken can’t Assuage Palestinian Fears With talk of defunct “Two-State Solution”

With Israeli Expulsionists in Power, US SecState Blinken can’t Assuage Palestinian Fears With talk of defunct “Two-State Solution”

( Middle East Monitor) – With Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu set to return as Israeli prime minister, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Palestinian […]

Ramona Wadi

Climate Crisis
One Billionaire emits a Million times more CO2 than an Average Person, as Protesters block Private Planes at Amsterdam

One Billionaire emits a Million times more CO2 than an Average Person, as Protesters block Private Planes at Amsterdam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Oxfam has a new study, Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people. The Executive Summary says that […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Politics and pulpits: Christians and Republicans team up to watch the Polls Tuesday

Politics and pulpits: Christians and Republicans team up to watch the Polls Tuesday

By Deena Winter | – The Minnesota Reformer BUFFALO — A flag hanging from a telephone pole marked the turnoff to the Land of Promise. […]

Minnesota Reformer

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: On the Road to International Isolation with the Rise of domestic Fascist Parties

Israel: On the Road to International Isolation with the Rise of domestic Fascist Parties

Adnan Abu Amer | – As Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud party that won the Israeli elections, rushes to form his new government, unprecedented […]

Middle East Monitor

Africa
Armed Conflict and Climate Change: how these two Threats play out in Africa

Armed Conflict and Climate Change: how these two Threats play out in Africa

By Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) | – The world is falling miserably short of reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
UN: Past 8 Years have been 8 hottest on Record, in Harbinger of Heating World

UN: Past 8 Years have been 8 hottest on Record, in Harbinger of Heating World

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The past eight years have been the eight hottest on record, in further evidence that human-caused global heating is accelerating […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Why is the Major Israel Lobby supporting over 100 Antisemitic Racists, Climate Deniers and election Denialists for Congress?

Why is the Major Israel Lobby supporting over 100 Antisemitic Racists, Climate Deniers and election Denialists for Congress?

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – AIPAC and Jewish Republicans are a puzzlement. They are financially supporting over 100 racists, climate deniers and election […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Democracy
The Economy Looms Large in the Midterms, but Abortion, Ukraine and the State of Democracy are also Key Voter Issues

The Economy Looms Large in the Midterms, but Abortion, Ukraine and the State of Democracy are also Key Voter Issues

By Stella Rouse, University of Maryland and Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland | – The 2022 midterm elections, perhaps more than most in recent American […]

The Conversation

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