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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

09/15/2025 By Michael T. Klare

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Bashar al-Assad
America's Allies Accept the Pain of Cutting off Russia, Except for Israel

America’s Allies Accept the Pain of Cutting off Russia, Except for Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reported on Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s three-hour meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday. […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
How Zelenskyy emerged as the antithesis of Putin and proved you don’t need to be a strongman to be a great leader

How Zelenskyy emerged as the antithesis of Putin and proved you don’t need to be a strongman to be a great leader

By Michael Blake, University of Washington | – Whatever happens in the coming weeks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will go down as the face of Ukrainian […]

The Conversation

China
Would a “Cold” War Be the Best News Around?  Ukraine, Taiwan, and Other Flashpoints in a New Age of Geopolitics

Would a “Cold” War Be the Best News Around? Ukraine, Taiwan, and Other Flashpoints in a New Age of Geopolitics

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been widely described as the beginning of a new cold war, much like the old one […]

Michael T. Klare

Climate Crisis
Harvard study links fracking to early death risk for seniors

Harvard study links fracking to early death risk for seniors

By Laureen Fagan: ( Sustainability Times) – Most people know it as fracking, a process of drilling for gas and oil using methods like hydraulic […]

Sustainability Times

Climate Crisis
EVs are Freedom Cars:  When you Fill up your Car with Gasoline, you're Helping Putin Destroy Ukraine

EVs are Freedom Cars: When you Fill up your Car with Gasoline, you’re Helping Putin Destroy Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Alex Mills writes that Russia produces 11 million barrels a day of petroleum and in 2021 exported 7.5 million barrels […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Let's Go after the Ill-Gotten, Tax-Evading Gains of All Oligarchs, not just Russian Ones

Let’s Go after the Ill-Gotten, Tax-Evading Gains of All Oligarchs, not just Russian Ones

( Inequality.org ) – Can we please get serious about taxing the rich? Polls show that hefty majorities of people in the United States — […]

Sam Pizzigati

Climate Crisis
IPCC report: Half the world is facing water scarcity, floods and dirty water — large investments are needed for effective solutions

IPCC report: Half the world is facing water scarcity, floods and dirty water — large investments are needed for effective solutions

By Balsher Singh Sidhu, University of British Columbia | – More than half the world’s population faces water scarcity for at least one month every […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Germany: Renewables stocks surge as govt renews vow to speed up expansion amid Ukraine war

Germany: Renewables stocks surge as govt renews vow to speed up expansion amid Ukraine war

By Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – German renewables stocks have surged amid prospects of an accelerated energy transition after the […]

Clean Energy Wire

Donald Trump
Can the Republican Party shake its Putin Habit, as Pence takes on Trump?

Can the Republican Party shake its Putin Habit, as Pence takes on Trump?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s response to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine was to call Vlad the Invader a “genius.” A […]

Juan Cole

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