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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
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Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crowds demonstrated in Israel against the […]

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

08/10/2025 By ProPublica

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

How Israel’s Self-Image changed from Self-Reliance to Aggressive Militarism

08/10/2025 By The Conversation

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As Crackdown Intensifies, Iranian Demonstrators Turn To Protest Art

As Crackdown Intensifies, Iranian Demonstrators Turn To Protest Art

( RFE/RL ) – As the authorities intensify their deadly crackdown on antiestablishment protests in Iran, some demonstrators are resorting to protest art to express […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Banking
Tackling Inflation By Rewarding the Rich Is a Fool’s Errand

Tackling Inflation By Rewarding the Rich Is a Fool’s Errand

By Sonali Kolhatkar | – ( Otherwords.org ) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss recently resigned after just 45 days in office, disgraced by her […]

Sonali Kolhatkar

Donald Trump
The Stochastic Ex-President:   How Trump set up the Pelosis for Attack

The Stochastic Ex-President: How Trump set up the Pelosis for Attack

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden noted Friday evening — concerning the assailant who fractured Paul Pelosi’s skull with a hammer in the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Renewable energy Exports key Pillar for Ukraine’s reconstruction – Chancellor Scholz

Renewable energy Exports key Pillar for Ukraine’s reconstruction – Chancellor Scholz

By Benjamin Wehrmann | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Energy exports to western Europe are one of the pillars a future Ukrainian economy […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Israel
Why Israel Defies the United States, Stays on the Good Side of Russia's Putin in Refusing Aid to Ukraine

Why Israel Defies the United States, Stays on the Good Side of Russia’s Putin in Refusing Aid to Ukraine

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Ukrainian war continues to have negative effects on Russian-Israeli relations where, recently, […]

Middle East Monitor

Authoritarianism
Elon Musk is wrong: Research shows Content Rules on Twitter help preserve Free Speech from Bots and other Manipulation

Elon Musk is wrong: Research shows Content Rules on Twitter help preserve Free Speech from Bots and other Manipulation

By Filippo Menczer, Indiana University | – (The Conversation) – Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, 2022 has triggered renewed debate about what […]

The Conversation

Batteries
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

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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

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