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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Frida Berrigan

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Israel/ Palestine
Will Netanyahu's new Religious Right Gov't Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

Will Netanyahu’s new Religious Right Gov’t Turn Israel into an Iran, with Gender Segregation and Pampered Seminarians?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has asked Likud voters a series of questions related to the current impasse […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘All Fossil Fuels’. What’s next for the Fight to keep them in the Ground?

By Fergus Green, UCL and Harro van Asselt, Stockholm Environment Institute | – (The Conversation) – The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once […]

The Conversation

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Thanksgiving:  The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims were saved by Native Advice; We should listen to Deb Haaland and other Native Leaders on the Climate Crisis

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

Iran’s Creative Resistance: From Hugs and Kisses to Tossing Turbans

By Fred Petrossian | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – It has been eight weeks since protests erupted across Iran on September 16 in response to […]

Global Voices

Climate Crisis
How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

How young Climate Activists built a Mass Movement to be Reckoned With

By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – When I became a climate organizer in college in the early 2000s, the words “youth […]

Waging Nonviolence

Climate Crisis
From Sponge Cities to Early Wildfire Detection Systems:  Top 4 Ways Climate-fuelled Disasters can be Thwarted

From Sponge Cities to Early Wildfire Detection Systems: Top 4 Ways Climate-fuelled Disasters can be Thwarted

By Roslyn Prinsley, Australian National University | – Climate change is driving a worldwide increase in extreme events. The latest State of the Climate report […]

The Conversation

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Israel has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions is Growing Rapidly: Report

Israel has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions is Growing Rapidly: Report

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees released a report for World Children’s Day on the routine Israeli arrest and […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Iran's Athletes, Including Soccer Players at World Cup, are Boycotting National Anthem to Support Protests

Iran’s Athletes, Including Soccer Players at World Cup, are Boycotting National Anthem to Support Protests

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. Here’s what I’ve been following during the past week and what I’m watching for in the days ahead. ( RFE/ […]

Golnaz Esfandiari

Climate Crisis
After Failures of COP27, only a Radical Effort to Slash CO2 can keep Climate from Going Chaotic

After Failures of COP27, only a Radical Effort to Slash CO2 can keep Climate from Going Chaotic

By Peter Schlosser, Arizona State University | – The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a […]

The Conversation

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