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A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio
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A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio

Joseph Richard Preville

A Review of Minister Without Portfolio: Memoir of a Reluctant Exile by Hooman Majd. Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Everybody needs a home. […]

Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions

Why Trump’s Fight with India could have global Repercussions

09/05/2025 By The Conversation

Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?

Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza?

09/05/2025 By Joshua Frank

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Omar Khayyam
“The Bird is on the Wing”: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:7

“The Bird is on the Wing”: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:7

Stanza 7 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám talks about how little time we have here on […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The price of genocide: How US Funding sustains an unraveling Israeli Economy

The price of genocide: How US Funding sustains an unraveling Israeli Economy

( Middle East Monitor ) – In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension […]

Middle East Monitor

Hizbullah
Risking Regional Chaos:  The US-Israeli Plan to End UN Peacekeeping in S. Lebanon

Risking Regional Chaos: The US-Israeli Plan to End UN Peacekeeping in S. Lebanon

By Vanessa Newby, Monash University and Chiara Ruffa, Sciences Po (The Conversation) – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is seen by many […]

The Conversation

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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Juan Cole

Fiction
Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

By Michelle Hamadache, Macquarie University (The Conversation) Hossein Asgari’s Desolation tells the story of Amin, an Iranian man whose life and family are shattered when […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its […]

Norman Solomon

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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Juan Cole

Genocide
Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

US Arms Transfers to Israel Are Internationally Wrongful Acts

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona (The Conversation) – Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on […]

The Conversation

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