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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Feminism
Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

By Haidar Khezri, University of Central Florida | – Unrest continues to erupt across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, who […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
Israeli Dilemma over Swedish and Italian Fascism: Fears of Antisemitism, Hopes for Right Wing Solidarity

Israeli Dilemma over Swedish and Italian Fascism: Fears of Antisemitism, Hopes for Right Wing Solidarity

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israelis are watching political developments in Europe with interest, particularly in Sweden and […]

Middle East Monitor

Books
The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?

The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?

( Tomdispatch.com) – No one listened better than Studs. For those of you old enough to remember, that’s Studs Terkel, of course. The most notable […]

Tom Engelhardt

Authoritarianism
Iranian Teachers' Union charges Gov't with Dishonoring Nation's Girls, Recalling Theme of Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911

Iranian Teachers’ Union charges Gov’t with Dishonoring Nation’s Girls, Recalling Theme of Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – So far, the wave of street protests staged in dozens of Iran’s towns and cities appear to have been spontaneous […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
Iran on fire: Once again, women are on the vanguard of transformative change

Iran on fire: Once again, women are on the vanguard of transformative change

By Vrinda Narain, McGill University and Fatemeh Sadeghi, UCL | – On Sept. 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in Tehran, Iran, […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
I saw what turning the Palestinian Village of Masafer Yatta into an Israeli Military ‘Firing Zone’ Means

I saw what turning the Palestinian Village of Masafer Yatta into an Israeli Military ‘Firing Zone’ Means

By Mahmoud Soliman | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Since a ruling of the Israeli Supreme Court on May 4, the Israeli military has been […]

Waging Nonviolence

Agriculture
Biden’s USDA more than Triples Funding for ‘Climate Smart’ Agriculture to $3 Billion

Biden’s USDA more than Triples Funding for ‘Climate Smart’ Agriculture to $3 Billion

By Jared Strong | – ( Minnesota Reformer) – The Biden administration plans to distribute more than $3 billion to fund projects that will reduce […]

Minnesota Reformer

Antarctica
Our Atmospheric CO2 is now past the point that in the Deep Past has Meant the Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheets

Our Atmospheric CO2 is now past the point that in the Deep Past has Meant the Melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheets

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – So as a historian, I am particularly interested in what the past tells us about the present. I’ve taught courses […]

Juan Cole

Russia
Russians flee the Draft as the Reality of War hits Home

Russians flee the Draft as the Reality of War hits Home

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment) – The “partial mobilization” announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 21 has triggered mass protests throughout the country […]

Richard Foltz

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