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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:”  FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14

09/17/2025 By Juan Cole

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Diplomacy, not total Victory, will in the End Settle the Ukraine War

Diplomacy, not total Victory, will in the End Settle the Ukraine War

Russia’s attack on the Ukraine certainly violated international law and Vladimir Putin should be charged as a war criminal for Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, […]

Richard Penaskovic

Israel/ Palestine
Interview: How Israel’s Travel Ban Crushes the Dreams of the Palestinians of Gaza

Interview: How Israel’s Travel Ban Crushes the Dreams of the Palestinians of Gaza

By Paul Aufiero, Omar Shakir, and Abier Almasri | – ( Human Rights Watch ) This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Israeli government’s […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Greenwashing: how Ads get you to think Brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it

Greenwashing: how Ads get you to think Brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it

By Morteza Abolhasani, The Open University; Gordon Liu, The Open University; and Zahra Golrokhi, The Open University | – Ads are ubiquitous in many people’s […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France’s parliamentary elections witnessed an upset, with centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République En Marche and its Ensemble coalition […]

Juan Cole

Modernism
New Identity:  Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey  (Review)

New Identity: Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey (Review)

Review of Filiz Çoban Oran, Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy: Discursive Construction of New Turkey’s Identity. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. Tuebingen (Special to Informed Comment) […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

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Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

( Otherwords.org) – CEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just […]

Sam Pizzigati

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Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lutheran World Federation Council has called for an end to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories (Gaza […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
German Gov't Dedicates 2% of Country's Land Area to Onshore Wind

German Gov’t Dedicates 2% of Country’s Land Area to Onshore Wind

By Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – More areas in Germany are going to be designated to onshore wind energy, with […]

Kerstine Appunn

Democracy
The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

By Omar Boutine | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – On May 15, 2022, Lebanese voters cast their ballots in the first parliamentary elections to be […]

Global Voices

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