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Int’l Red Cross Outraged by Israel’s killing of Medics, First Responders in Gaza
( Middle East Monitor ) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday expressed outrage after eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), five […]
Protesting Harvard’s Dismissal of Directors of its Mideast Center over Israel-Palestine as Attack on Academic Freedom
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Committee on Academic Freedom Alan Garber President, Harvard University . . . Dear President […]
Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with his cabinet on Sunday, according to the president’s website, and announced that Trump’s offer […]
China Displaces the U.S. as Global Leader in Research, with 9 of top 10 Institutions
Nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese. By Imran Khalid ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In the last decade, a […]
Can Fortress Europe survive Trump, Putin and the new Political Dark Age?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty […]
Your Gasoline Car is an Engine of Trump’s Fascism: Resistance requires going Green
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mussolini defined fascism as the “merger of state and corporate power.” But not all corporations are equally complicit. Obviously, our […]
With Proxies Weakened, Iran bets on Missiles for Defense
By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/ RL) – Iran says it has numerous underground missile bases across Iran, and sporadically unveils some with a lot of […]
Gaza: Israeli Military War Crimes While Occupying Hospitals
Denial of Care, Deadly Forced Evacuations, Destruction of Medical Facilities Israeli military forces caused deaths and unnecessary suffering of Palestinian patients while occupying hospitals in […]
Amid Gaza Protests: – Top 5 Ways Israeli PM Netanyahu kept Hamas in Power
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The London-based, Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Awsat [The Middle East], reports that demonstrations against Hamas broke out this week in […]
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