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When Politics Leaves Reality Behind
Conspiracy Theories

When Politics Leaves Reality Behind

Bahman Fozouni

Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The traditional left–right political spectrum no longer captures the forces driving division in America today. That model works […]

The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza

The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza

05/10/2025 By John Feffer

Palestinian Literature: A Rich Literary Heritage from a Nation in Exile

Palestinian Literature: A Rich Literary Heritage from a Nation in Exile

05/10/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Confiscating Palestinian Land for a Horse Farm:  Israel’s Separation Barrier Restricts Livelihoods in the Occupied West Bank

Confiscating Palestinian Land for a Horse Farm: Israel’s Separation Barrier Restricts Livelihoods in the Occupied West Bank

By Eric Goldstein, Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division | – ( Human Rights Watch) – On April 14, 2002, Israel’s cabinet approved […]

Human Rights Watch

Authoritarianism
How Big Oil fuels both Rising Authoritarianism and worsening Climate Crisis

How Big Oil fuels both Rising Authoritarianism and worsening Climate Crisis

By Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine | – Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” […]

The Conversation

Australia
Biggest Solar-and-Battery Installation in World, at Darwin, Australia, to Power Singapore 3,000 miles Away

Biggest Solar-and-Battery Installation in World, at Darwin, Australia, to Power Singapore 3,000 miles Away

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Moving the world to renewable energy can’t be done purely on the basis of the nation-state. The challenge of the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Azmi Bishara, “Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice” –  Review

Azmi Bishara, “Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice” – Review

Tübingen (Special to Informed Comment) – Book Review – Azmi Bishara, Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice. London: Hurst and Co., 2022. 2021 saw Benjamin […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Food Insecurity
A year of Hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine War is worsening climate-linked Food Crises

A year of Hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine War is worsening climate-linked Food Crises

By Ro McFarlane, University of Canberra; Nenad Naumovski, University of Canberra; and Shawn Somerset, University of Canberra | – Global wheat prices have soared since […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
Bodies beyond Bucha:  The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About

Bodies beyond Bucha: The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Madogaz Musa Abdullah still remembers the phone call. But what came next was a blur. He drove for hours, deep into […]

Nick Turse

censorship
Disney Targeted on Gay Rights by both DeSantis' Christian Taliban and Saudi Muslim Obscurantism

Disney Targeted on Gay Rights by both DeSantis’ Christian Taliban and Saudi Muslim Obscurantism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis notoriously just came after the Walt Disney Co. for its opposition, if belated, to his “don’t […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Stop the Wars. Save the Planet

Stop the Wars. Save the Planet

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – This report “is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.” Such was […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Release Long Detained Gaza Aid Worker: 6 Years After Arrest, Mohammad al-Halabi Has Not Been Convicted of a Crime

Israel: Release Long Detained Gaza Aid Worker: 6 Years After Arrest, Mohammad al-Halabi Has Not Been Convicted of a Crime

Human Rights Watch – (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities should immediately release Mohammad al-Halabi, a humanitarian worker from Gaza detained for nearly six years both before […]

Human Rights Watch

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