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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty
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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and […]

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

08/20/2025 By The Conversation

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

08/20/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

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If We heat the World 1.5°C (2.7° F.), Essential Coral Reefs are all but Doomed

If We heat the World 1.5°C (2.7° F.), Essential Coral Reefs are all but Doomed

By Adele Dixon, Maria Beger, Peter Kalmus, and Scott F. Heron | – Coral reefs have long been regarded as one of the earliest and […]

The Conversation

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Apartheid 2.0:  Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians

Apartheid 2.0: Amnesty International Joins Chorus condemning Israeli rule over stateless Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli state has won the trifecta of condemnation by major human rights organizations, as, on Tuesday, Amnesty International joined […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
How Green Buildings can boost Productivity, well-being and Health of Workers

How Green Buildings can boost Productivity, well-being and Health of Workers

By Md Sazan Rahman | – Most people now recognize the energy savings benefits of green buildings. These buildings use less water, energy and other […]

The Conversation

Feminism
Women have had the Right to Choose in America for a Large Part of its History

Women have had the Right to Choose in America for a Large Part of its History

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Did you know? …Abortion has been legal for a large part of US history and was significant in […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Donald Trump
America’s Two Pandemics:  And How They Mixed and Matched

America’s Two Pandemics: And How They Mixed and Matched

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine that you were experiencing all of this (and by this, I mean our lives right now) as if it were […]

Tom Engelhardt

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How the Ukraine Crisis is Changing Biden's Mideast Policy:  The Rise and Rise of Qatar

How the Ukraine Crisis is Changing Biden’s Mideast Policy: The Rise and Rise of Qatar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Russia’s massing of over 100,000 troops around Ukraine has provoked a diplomatic and military crisis, but also a potential energy […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Jerusalem Christians: ‘We shrunk from 20% to 2% of population due to Israeli violence’

Jerusalem Christians: ‘We shrunk from 20% to 2% of population due to Israeli violence’

By by Raseef22 | – ( Globalvoices.org) – As tensions escalate in Jerusalem in the wake of Israel’s latest wave of evicting Palestinians from the […]

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Afghanistan
“Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You”:  LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover

“Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You”: LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover

(Human Rights Watch ) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Afghanistan, and others who do not conform to rigid gender norms, have […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark

New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark

By Oliver Wing, Carolyn Kousky, Jeremy Porter, and Paul Bates | – Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster […]

The Conversation

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