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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman
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Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to turn Israel into a 21st century version of the Flying Dutchman. […]

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

Gaza hunger deepens as 6,000 aid trucks await Entry: UN agency for Palestinian Refugees

07/27/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — ProPublica

07/27/2025 By ProPublica

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The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the West's Double Standards on Refugees

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the West’s Double Standards on Refugees

By Feras Abu-Helal | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It is probably true to say that most Arabs sympathise with the people of Ukraine […]

Middle East Monitor

Russia
Holy wars: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia

Holy wars: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia

By Lena Surzhko Harned | Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State | – ( The Conversation ) – A curious new church was […]

The Conversation

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The Night Biden became President: Pledges Crippling Sanctions on Russia, bans Flights, for Ukraine Aggression

The Night Biden became President: Pledges Crippling Sanctions on Russia, bans Flights, for Ukraine Aggression

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Foreign policy abruptly hijacked President Biden’s State of the Union Address Tuesday night, making the occasion less partisan that it […]

Juan Cole

Joe Biden
Turkey will Block Certain Russian Warships from Bosphorus, but still Seeks Neutrality on Ukraine War

Turkey will Block Certain Russian Warships from Bosphorus, but still Seeks Neutrality on Ukraine War

By Lamiya Adilgizi | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – Over the last week, nations and corporations all over the world have announced extensive economic and […]

Global Voices

Germany
Could the G7 Wealthy Countries Really Boycott Russian Petroleum?

Could the G7 Wealthy Countries Really Boycott Russian Petroleum?

By Amy Myers Jaffe | – One option the U.S. and other nations have for ratcheting up pressure on Russia in response to its invasion […]

The Conversation

Joe Biden
What advice would JFK have for President Biden about Putin and Ukraine?

What advice would JFK have for President Biden about Putin and Ukraine?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Dear Mr. President: I send greetings from the other side — and no, I don’t mean the other side of the […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Agriculture
UN Climate Panel: 50% of Species have fled toward Poles, as Extinctions and Food and Water Shortages Burgeon

UN Climate Panel: 50% of Species have fled toward Poles, as Extinctions and Food and Water Shortages Burgeon

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its 2022 report and the scientists have bad news for us. […]

Juan Cole

Holocaust
Putin's "Nazi" pretext for his Brutal Invasion of Ukraine Insults the Memory of Holocaust Victims

Putin’s “Nazi” pretext for his Brutal Invasion of Ukraine Insults the Memory of Holocaust Victims

“No monument stands over Babi Yar . . .,” so begins a tragic poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko; “only a step cliff like the rudest headstone […]

H. Scott Prosterman

NATO
Ordinary Russians are already feeling the economic pain of sanctions over Ukraine invasion

Ordinary Russians are already feeling the economic pain of sanctions over Ukraine invasion

By Peter Rutland | – The daily life of ordinary Russians – not just the country’s political elite or super rich oligarchs – is already […]

The Conversation

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