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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves
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France and the UN ride to Save the 2-State Solution, but Netanyahu Buried it in Gaza’s Mass Graves

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – French President Macron is taking the lead in a doomed bid to keep a two-state solution alive. […]

“Look to the Rose:”  Edward FitzGerald’s  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13

09/16/2025 By Juan Cole

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

52 Ways to Combat Malignant Hatred of Muslims

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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

Israel Lobbies
U of Washington should not have Cancelled Israel Studies over Professor’s Criticism of Israel (MESA)

U of Washington should not have Cancelled Israel Studies over Professor’s Criticism of Israel (MESA)

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association Letter to the President of the University of Washington Ana Mari Cauce President, University of Washington Dear […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Americans Shocked to See Ukrainians treated Like Iraqis even though they are White (Not the Onion)

Americans Shocked to See Ukrainians treated Like Iraqis even though they are White (Not the Onion)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some European and American commentators on Russia’s war against Ukraine have covered themselves in shame by implying that because Ukrainians […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Chekhov's Pistol:  or, Putin's All-Encompassing Security State

Chekhov’s Pistol: or, Putin’s All-Encompassing Security State

Montreal (Special to Informed Comment) – Anton Chekhov famously advised young playwrights that “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the […]

Richard Foltz

Employment
Joe Manchin’s America:  The Resurgence of the Culture-of-Poverty Debate

Joe Manchin’s America: The Resurgence of the Culture-of-Poverty Debate

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As if killing the Child Tax Credit, blocking voting rights, gutting key climate legislation, and refusing living wages wasn’t enough, West […]

Liz Theoharis

Russia
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine:  A New Cold War?

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: A New Cold War?

By Jaro Bilocerkowycz | – In a very real sense, the Russian full-scale invasion places Ukraine at the center of a geopolitical struggle reminiscent of […]

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