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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump:  Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?
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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump: Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The reports of the past few days are extremely worrying. The acrimonious and open split between President Donald […]

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

06/07/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

06/07/2025 By The Conversation

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Now Israel is Occupying the Hearts of Lovers in the Palestinian West Bank

Now Israel is Occupying the Hearts of Lovers in the Palestinian West Bank

Update: Once the proposed policy got some publicity, Israeli authorities canceled the requirement that anyone who falls in love with a Palestinian in the West […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How election-denying GOP Governors could tilt the 2024 presidential Election

How election-denying GOP Governors could tilt the 2024 presidential Election

By Kira Lerner | – ( Minnesota Reformer) – WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN – Former President Donald Trump listens as Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels speaks […]

Minnesota Reformer

Islam
In Turkey, Arrest of Pop Singer for Offending Clerics Prompts Fears of Turn to Fundamentalist Government

In Turkey, Arrest of Pop Singer for Offending Clerics Prompts Fears of Turn to Fundamentalist Government

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – Police in Turkey have arrested pop singer Gülşen (full name Gülşen Colakoglu), 46, pending trial, over a comment she made […]

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Climate Crisis
Why defusing ‘Carbon Bombs’ offers a promising new Agenda for tackling Climate Change

Why defusing ‘Carbon Bombs’ offers a promising new Agenda for tackling Climate Change

By Kjell Kühne, University of Leeds | – A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause […]

The Conversation

Corruption
Empty Classified Document Folders at Trump's Office at Mar-a-Lago: Where did the Docs Go?

Empty Classified Document Folders at Trump’s Office at Mar-a-Lago: Where did the Docs Go?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday ordered the release of the inventory of US government documents seized by the […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
Does Mideast Panopticon -- Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities -- foretell our Dystopian Future?

Does Mideast Panopticon — Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities — foretell our Dystopian Future?

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian […]

Middle East Monitor

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How Timber Cities could provide Climate Saving Solution for growing urban Populations

How Timber Cities could provide Climate Saving Solution for growing urban Populations

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – A large-scale transition to using wood for building construction in “timber cities” could avoid […]

Clean Energy Wire

Antisemitism
Unknown Holocaust photos – found in Attics and Archives – are helping Researchers recover lost Stories and providing a Tool against Denial

Unknown Holocaust photos – found in Attics and Archives – are helping Researchers recover lost Stories and providing a Tool against Denial

By Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Biden comes out Swinging against Trumpian, MAGA GOP as Authoritarian, Violent

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Joe Biden came out swinging in Philadelphia in a rare Thursday evening prime time address, denouncing the “MAGA Republican […]

Juan Cole

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