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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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Climate Emergency: Dangerously Early Southwest Wildfire Season Encroaches on iconic Towns and Nature

Climate Emergency: Dangerously Early Southwest Wildfire Season Encroaches on iconic Towns and Nature

By Molly Hunter, University of Arizona | – New Mexico and Arizona are facing a dangerously early fire season. It has left neighborhoods in ashes […]

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Evangelicals
Who is More Advanced? 29 Muslim-Majority States will Have more Liberal Abortion Laws than much of America if Roe Falls

Who is More Advanced? 29 Muslim-Majority States will Have more Liberal Abortion Laws than much of America if Roe Falls

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The American Religious Right as a political force is in some ways a creation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade […]

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran: Labor Protests Surge: Unpaid Wages, Unsafe Work Conditions, Arbitrary Arrests, Prosecutions

Iran: Labor Protests Surge: Unpaid Wages, Unsafe Work Conditions, Arbitrary Arrests, Prosecutions

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian workers are facing mounting economic and political challenges to realizing their labor rights, Human Rights Watch and Human […]

Human Rights Watch

Bill of Rights
State Power will replace Roe Abortion right if leaked Alito opinion prevails in Supreme Court

State Power will replace Roe Abortion right if leaked Alito opinion prevails in Supreme Court

By Morgan Marietta, UMass Lowell | – Draft opinions circulated among Supreme Court justices are meant to allow for deliberation and editing before a final […]

The Conversation

Africa
The Economic Consequences of the War: Why the Conflict in Ukraine Is a Disaster for the Poor of This Planet

The Economic Consequences of the War: Why the Conflict in Ukraine Is a Disaster for the Poor of This Planet

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In 1919, the renowned British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace, a book that would prove […]

Rajan Menon

Antisemitism
Israeli Authorities still haven't taken sides on Ukraine Invasion, but Denounce Russia for saying Hitler was Jewish

Israeli Authorities still haven’t taken sides on Ukraine Invasion, but Denounce Russia for saying Hitler was Jewish

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli and Ukrainian governments have lambasted the Russian Federation for remarks of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a video […]

Juan Cole

Middle East
Another Russian War?    Is Putin done letting Israel hit Iran in Syria?

Another Russian War? Is Putin done letting Israel hit Iran in Syria?

(Special to Informed Comment) – Conflict recently flared again in the Levant — in Jerusalem, Lebanon’s south and Gaza. An Israel-Iran war is just waiting […]

Michael G. Roskin

Afghanistan
Afghanistan:  Taliban Faces Rising Armed Resistance From Former Government Factions

Afghanistan: Taliban Faces Rising Armed Resistance From Former Government Factions

By Abubakar Siddique | – ( RFE/ RL )- For nearly two decades, the Taliban launched an annual deadly spring offensive in a bid to […]

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European Union
A Failure of Western Diplomacy: Russia’s long journey from partner of the west to pariah

A Failure of Western Diplomacy: Russia’s long journey from partner of the west to pariah

By Anna-Sophie Maass, Lancaster University | – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine two months ago, the world has grown used to the sight of […]

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