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Stephen Colbert and I:  The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship
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Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok

07/19/2025 By Arzu Geybullayeva

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

Green Energy and protecting Nature get the Thumbs up in Climate Change study in 68 Countries

07/19/2025 By The Conversation

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Domestic Terrorism
Did Trump try to Get VP Mike Pence Killed?

Did Trump try to Get VP Mike Pence Killed?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Jan. 6 Committee revealed on Thursday that Trump knew that the Capitol had been breached by his Oath Keeper […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
What we can Learn from Bolivia’s Struggle for Free Water: Review of Maude Barlow, “Still Hopeful After All These Years”

What we can Learn from Bolivia’s Struggle for Free Water: Review of Maude Barlow, “Still Hopeful After All These Years”

Review of Maude Barlow, Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism. ECW Press, 2022. When I was teaching Political Science, some of the most […]

Peter G. Prontzos

Iran
Hello Commander: new Pop Song aims to steel Iranian youth against Temptations of American Culture

Hello Commander: new Pop Song aims to steel Iranian youth against Temptations of American Culture

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, SOAS, University of London | – The Tehran Times recently hailed what it referred to as: “A new epic song themed with […]

The Conversation

Russia
Chomsky: America’s Orwellian Doublespeak on Aggressive War Fatally Weakens its Case on Ukraine

Chomsky: America’s Orwellian Doublespeak on Aggressive War Fatally Weakens its Case on Ukraine

By David Barsamiand Noam Chomsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – David Barsamian: Let’s head into the most obvious nightmare of this moment, the war […]

Tomdispatch

Congress
A Distinctly Native Criminal Class:  Was Rep. Loudermilk Part of the Jan. 6 Insurrection?  How many in Congress Were?

A Distinctly Native Criminal Class: Was Rep. Loudermilk Part of the Jan. 6 Insurrection? How many in Congress Were?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are 435 representatives in the House, and you and I have not heard of most of them. In some […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15:  Israel, Egypt Restrictions Blight Palestinian Lives

Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15: Israel, Egypt Restrictions Blight Palestinian Lives

Human Rights Watch – (Gaza) – Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their lives, […]

Human Rights Watch

China
Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

Originally published in Hankyoreh. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Joe Biden has wrapped up his first trip to Asia. He met with new […]

John Feffer

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

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