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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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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

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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

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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

Climate Crisis
Colonialism: why leading Climate Scientists have finally acknowledged its Link with Climate Change

Colonialism: why leading Climate Scientists have finally acknowledged its Link with Climate Change

By Harriet Mercer, University of Cambridge | – The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s sixth and latest report on the impact of global warming […]

The Conversation

Democracy
France: Macron's Pyrrhic Victory -- Is his Neoliberalism Producing the Far Right?

France: Macron’s Pyrrhic Victory — Is his Neoliberalism Producing the Far Right?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Romain Brunet at France 24 termed Emannuel Macron’s win in the presidential election a “Pyrrhic victory.” In 280-275 BC, Pyrrhus, […]

Juan Cole

Food Security
Ukraine Crisis: Yemen urgently needs Seeds to Avoid Famine given Global Wheat Shortages

Ukraine Crisis: Yemen urgently needs Seeds to Avoid Famine given Global Wheat Shortages

(Special to Informed Comment) – On top of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis created by a seven year war, Yemen is facing a new threat […]

Daniel Martin Varisco

Climate Crisis
The Double Whammy of Industrial Waste and the Climate Crisis

The Double Whammy of Industrial Waste and the Climate Crisis

Birmingham, Ala. (Special to Informed Comment) – According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the United States Congress, about one-third of chemical facilities in […]

Gregory A. Cade

Climate Crisis
Are We Approaching the most Dangerous Point in Human History?

Are We Approaching the most Dangerous Point in Human History?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Face it, we’re living in a world that, while anything but exceptional, is increasingly the exception to every rule. Only the […]

Tom Engelhardt

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