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Turkiye Indicts 37 Israeli Officials for Genocide amid Reports Israel’s own Military Lawyers warned of War Crimes
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Turkiye Indicts 37 Israeli Officials for Genocide amid Reports Israel’s own Military Lawyers warned of War Crimes

Juan Cole

The office pointed to the killing and wounding of thousands of people and the deprivation of the populace of shelter

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Verdict from the People: Why the Gaza Tribunal is about Accountability, not Symbolism

Verdict from the People: Why the Gaza Tribunal is about Accountability, not Symbolism

11/08/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

“Palestine 36” tells a forgotten Story of Revolt – and how the Legacy of Colonialism endures in Palestine

“Palestine 36” tells a forgotten Story of Revolt – and how the Legacy of Colonialism endures in Palestine

11/08/2025 By The Conversation

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With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

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Health Care
Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare

Broken Promises: Deceptive Marketing Practices in Medicare

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Award winning journalist,Trudy Lieberman, a former president of the Association of Health Care Journalists, alerts us that it […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

journalism
How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

By Farinaz Basmechi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa (The Conversation) – Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an […]

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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.”  The […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Iran
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

In Quatrain no. 23 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, we find an explicit denial of the […]

Juan Cole

Celtic Religion
Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Celts, who lived about 3,000 years ago in an area which is now Gaul (France), Ireland, […]

Hugh J. Curran

Democratic Socialists of America
Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left

Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left

By Eric Ross | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her […]

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Caribbean
Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown

Hurricane Melissa was 33% more Destructive in Jamaica because of People-Caused Climate Breakdown

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hurricane Melissa is the most devastating storm to hit Jamaica in recorded history, CNN reports. It rapidly intensified over the […]

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Displaced and Refugees
Sudan Mass Atrocities in Captured Darfur City: Rampant Abuse of Fleeing Civilians by RSF

Sudan Mass Atrocities in Captured Darfur City: Rampant Abuse of Fleeing Civilians by RSF

Human Rights Watch – (Nairobi) – Dozens of videos posted on social media in recent days show Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carrying out extrajudicial killings […]

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