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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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Cold War
America’s Disastrous 60-Year War: Three Generations of Conspicuous Destruction by the Military-Industrial Complex

America’s Disastrous 60-Year War: Three Generations of Conspicuous Destruction by the Military-Industrial Complex

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In my lifetime of nearly 60 years, America has waged five major wars, winning one decisively, then throwing that victory away, […]

William J. Astore

Climate Crisis
Not Since Charlemagne: Megadrought in US Southwest, boosted by Human CO2 emissions, is worst since 800 AD

Not Since Charlemagne: Megadrought in US Southwest, boosted by Human CO2 emissions, is worst since 800 AD

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The megadrought in the US West has produced drier conditions as of the past year than any seen in over […]

Juan Cole

Canada
How a Fringe in Canada caught the Far Right Trump Disease, fueled by US Money and Fox

How a Fringe in Canada caught the Far Right Trump Disease, fueled by US Money and Fox

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Using behemoth-sized vehicles as weapons, truckers shut down Canada’s capitol city Ottawa and blocked several bridges to the United […]

Dan Dinello

Climate Crisis
We need to cut Carbon, not fall for the Scam of Trying to Capture it

We need to cut Carbon, not fall for the Scam of Trying to Capture it

By Jason MacLean | – When the federal government released the budget in April 2021, it proposed creating a new tax credit for private firms […]

The Conversation

Israel Lobbies
Criticizing Israeli Policies is not Antisemitism, and Arizona Teachers Shouldn’t be deprived of 1st Amendment Rights

Criticizing Israeli Policies is not Antisemitism, and Arizona Teachers Shouldn’t be deprived of 1st Amendment Rights

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association: Letter Protesting proposed adoption of flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism for Arizona institutions of higher education by […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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What Israel is doing to Palestine just as Bad as what Russia is doing to Ukraine, but US doesn't Care

What Israel is doing to Palestine just as Bad as what Russia is doing to Ukraine, but US doesn’t Care

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US government has been accused of hyping the crisis between the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, where some 120,000 […]

Juan Cole

European Union
How to Avoid War:  Why it is time for a Neutral, Demilitarized Eastern Europe

How to Avoid War: Why it is time for a Neutral, Demilitarized Eastern Europe

Tiffin, Oh. (Special to Informed Comment) – Europe has been a flash point for war among both great and small powers for centuries. Conflicts beginning […]

Arnold Oliver

Authoritarianism
The Disloyalty to the United States of Trump and the Republican National Committee

The Disloyalty to the United States of Trump and the Republican National Committee

Berkeley, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – On February 4, the Republican National Committee voted to censure two party members. The charge was that investigating […]

Scott Corey

Education
Crisis in the Schools:  A Return to a Normal That Was Never Good Enough

Crisis in the Schools: A Return to a Normal That Was Never Good Enough

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It feels odd to admit this, but I miss the stillness of the first few disorienting and terrifying weeks of the […]

Belle Chesler

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