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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Human-Driven Climate Crisis:  East Antarctica Ice Shelf collapses for First Time in Human History

Human-Driven Climate Crisis: East Antarctica Ice Shelf collapses for First Time in Human History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Associated Press reports that the Conger/Glenzer ice shelf in East Antarctica has collapsed. The event was caught on satellite […]

Juan Cole

Energy
No to Blackmail: Germany to be free from Russian oil, coal by end of 2022, Gas by 2024 –  Econ Minister

No to Blackmail: Germany to be free from Russian oil, coal by end of 2022, Gas by 2024 – Econ Minister

( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany is making considerable progress in weaning itself off fossil fuel imports from Russia and could become virtually independent of […]

Julian Wettengel

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Time is ticking: Israel's balancing act in Ukraine is likely to backfire

Time is ticking: Israel’s balancing act in Ukraine is likely to backfire

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting NATO-Russia conflict is […]

Ramzy Baroud

Egypt
Ukraine War Threatens Wheat Supply to Egypt,  where a Meal isn’t complete without Bread

Ukraine War Threatens Wheat Supply to Egypt, where a Meal isn’t complete without Bread

Jessica Barnes, University of South Carolina | Russia’s war on Ukraine is disrupting global grain supplies. Restrictions on navigation in the Azov Sea and the […]

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Climate Crisis
Largest American Wind Farm ever Built all-at-Once Opens in Oklahoma, Saves Customers $1 Billion over Fossil fuels

Largest American Wind Farm ever Built all-at-Once Opens in Oklahoma, Saves Customers $1 Billion over Fossil fuels

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This week, American Electric Power (AEP), which operates in several states, inaugurated what it called the largest wind farm in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine

U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine

By Jeff Warner and Yossi Khen | – ( The Markaz Review ) – Russian President Vladimir Putin claims that Ukraine has no right of […]

Jeff Warner

Climate Crisis
American Exceptionalism is the Wrong Lens for our Massive Carbon Dioxide Emissions

American Exceptionalism is the Wrong Lens for our Massive Carbon Dioxide Emissions

By Aviva Chomsky | – Three years after the end of World War II, diplomat George Kennan outlined the challenges the country faced this way: […]

Tomdispatch

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US Deplores Russia's 'Shock and Awe' against Ukraine, but Found its own Against Iraq "Spectacular"

US Deplores Russia’s ‘Shock and Awe’ against Ukraine, but Found its own Against Iraq “Spectacular”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The scenes of the horrible destruction that Russia is inflicting on Ukraine’s civilian cities, from Kharkiv to Mariupol, and the […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Will war in Ukraine hasten the end of fossil fuels in the West?

Will war in Ukraine hasten the end of fossil fuels in the West?

By Jack Marley | – Four weeks have passed since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. To impede the onslaught of Vladimir Putin’s war machine, countries in […]

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