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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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California Milestone:  State for First Time briefly Generates 103% of its Electricity from Renewables

California Milestone: State for First Time briefly Generates 103% of its Electricity from Renewables

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On one day in May, Lauren Sommer at NPR reported, California ran for several hours on 103% renewable electricity, which […]

Juan Cole

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How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids to the Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?

How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids to the Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?

( Otherwords ) – Mass shootings are good for gun sales. In the days following the horrific school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, firearm stocks rose. […]

Sonali Kolhatkar

Climate Change
Lessons in Activism: How Australia’s expanding environmental Movement is breaking the Climate Action Deadlock in Politics

Lessons in Activism: How Australia’s expanding environmental Movement is breaking the Climate Action Deadlock in Politics

By Robyn Gulliver, The University of Queensland | – The federal election saw voters’ growing concern about Australia’s laggardly response to climate change finally addressed, […]

The Conversation

Guns
A Country Armed to the Teeth: And Strutting Toward the Apocalypse

A Country Armed to the Teeth: And Strutting Toward the Apocalypse

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The gun I carried on the streets of New York City in the late 1960s was […]

Tomdispatch

Conspiracy Theories
What did the President Know and When did He Know it? Trump's 7-Part Plan and the Insurrection

What did the President Know and When did He Know it? Trump’s 7-Part Plan and the Insurrection

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – When the news of the burglary at the Democratic campaign headquarters in the Watergate building broke, it wasn’t initially clear […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Denying Palestine while Protecting Israel from Itself

Denying Palestine while Protecting Israel from Itself

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – Many acts regarding Palestine are an enigma. Everything is convoluted, and you do not know who is killing who […]

Middle East Monitor

Central America
‘Open-air Prison’ in southern Mexico traps thousands of Migrants

‘Open-air Prison’ in southern Mexico traps thousands of Migrants

By Taylor Stevens | Cronkite Borderlands Project – ( Cronkite News ) – TAPACHULA, MEXICO – The desperation here is palpable. It fills the stifling […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Food Security
Food prices: how Countries are using the Global Crisis to gain Geopolitical Power

Food prices: how Countries are using the Global Crisis to gain Geopolitical Power

By Sarah Schiffling, Liverpool John Moores University; and Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos,Technological University Dublin | Twenty million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukrainian silos, […]

The Conversation

Bashar al-Assad
Russia Lambastes "Vicious" Israel for Striking Damascus Airport, Causing Setback to Counter-Terrorism

Russia Lambastes “Vicious” Israel for Striking Damascus Airport, Causing Setback to Counter-Terrorism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Tass, Maria Zakharova, the spokewsoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said of Israel’s bombardment on Friday before dawn […]

Juan Cole

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