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California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear
Academic Freedom

California Strikes Back: Trump Poked the Golden Bear

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – California Governor Gavin Newsom assumed the mantle of national leadership when he announced California’s “Election Rigging Response […]

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4

08/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

The West’s Long Struggle Against Genocide Prevention

08/18/2025 By Dan Steinbock

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Israel/ Palestine
Faced with Killing of American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, US Priority has been to Preserve Israel's Impunity

Faced with Killing of American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, US Priority has been to Preserve Israel’s Impunity

( Middle East Monitor) – The developments in the “investigation” into the targeted killing of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh point rather too […]

Ramona Wadi

Conspiracy Theories
Afraid of *Everything* - The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy

Afraid of *Everything* – The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I have a brother with chronic schizophrenia. He had his first severe catatonic episode when he was 16 years old and […]

William J. Astore

Health
On Their 57th Anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid Remain Under Threat

On Their 57th Anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid Remain Under Threat

By Max Richter | – ( Commondreams.org ) – You may wonder why former President Harry Truman is sitting close by while President Lyndon B. […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
Surprise Dem Senate Bill makes US Global Climate Leader, Sees 40% Carbon Reduction by 2030

Surprise Dem Senate Bill makes US Global Climate Leader, Sees 40% Carbon Reduction by 2030

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a huge surprise on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the Chairman of the Senate Energy and […]

Juan Cole

Food Security
The Turkey-Russia-Ukraine Grain Agreement and the Weaponization of Food

The Turkey-Russia-Ukraine Grain Agreement and the Weaponization of Food

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new […]

John Feffer

Israel
Israel fears a Nightmare Scenario as the Crisis with Russia escalates

Israel fears a Nightmare Scenario as the Crisis with Russia escalates

By Adnan Abu Amer | – Israel is convinced that Moscow’s threat to close down the Jewish Agency in Russia is retaliation for the Zionist […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why Britain's 104°F (40°C) Heatwave was made many Times more Likely by Humans burning Fossil Fuels

Why Britain’s 104°F (40°C) Heatwave was made many Times more Likely by Humans burning Fossil Fuels

By Ben Clark, University of Oxford; Friederike Otto, Imperial College London; and Luke Harrington, University of Waikato | – (The Conversation) – Every heatwave occurring […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
Trump joins Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis as Former High Office-Holder Investigated for Sedition

Trump joins Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis as Former High Office-Holder Investigated for Sedition

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, and Spencer S. Hsu at the Washington Post got the scoop that the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
The Enduring Tyranny of Oil: War, Inflation, and Soaring World Temperatures

The Enduring Tyranny of Oil: War, Inflation, and Soaring World Temperatures

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It may seem hard to believe, but only 15 years ago many of us were talking confidently about “peak oil” — […]

Michael T. Klare

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