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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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African-Americans
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

By Kris Manjapra, Tufts University | – The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
This Week's Climate Disasters in the US are Giving us a Glimpse of our Future if we don't Stop CO2

This Week’s Climate Disasters in the US are Giving us a Glimpse of our Future if we don’t Stop CO2

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We’re only midweek, but we have already seen serial disasters across the United States that have been exacerbated by the […]

Juan Cole

censorship
In Demolishing Muslim protestors' homes, India is taking a Leaf from of Israel's Book

In Demolishing Muslim protestors’ homes, India is taking a Leaf from of Israel’s Book

( Middle East Monitor ) – Over the weekend Indian authorities bulldozed several homes belonging to Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). […]

Omar Ahmed

Christianity
Patriarchy and Purity Culture Silence Evangelical, Southern Baptist Women amid Sexual Abuse Scandals

Patriarchy and Purity Culture Silence Evangelical, Southern Baptist Women amid Sexual Abuse Scandals

By Julie Ingersoll, University of North Florida | – A devastating yearlong investigation into the executive committee of the largest conservative evangelical denomination in the […]

The Conversation

Epidemics
My Pandemic in Three Acts:  Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town

My Pandemic in Three Acts: Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town

By Nina Burleigh | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – On New Years’ Eve 2019, Americans celebrated the advent of the roaring ‘20s with fireworks and champagne, […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Why the Oath Keepers looks an Awful lot like al-Qaeda and Trump is its Usama Bin Laden

Why the Oath Keepers looks an Awful lot like al-Qaeda and Trump is its Usama Bin Laden

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although the Congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6 insurrection is releasing new information about the ties between the White […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Why Muslim countries are quick at condemning Defamation – but often ignore Rights Violations against Muslim Minorities

Why Muslim countries are quick at condemning Defamation – but often ignore Rights Violations against Muslim Minorities

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – The Indian government finds itself in a diplomatic crisis following offensive remarks by the ruling […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Is it now a Crime to Support Palestinian Rights?

Is it now a Crime to Support Palestinian Rights?

By Yara Hawari | – ( Al-Shabaka ) A new wave of repressive UK government policies aims to suppress protest and political expression, posing a […]

Yara Hawari

Bashar al-Assad
With Putin bogged down in Ukraine, will the Syrian Civil War Reignite?

With Putin bogged down in Ukraine, will the Syrian Civil War Reignite?

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Pivotal moments in history rarely present themselves, but when they do, that is exactly what […]

Middle East Monitor

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