Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Fourth of July we just observed, nearly 250 years after America’s Declaration of Independence, felt like a […]
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The New Ugly American: Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump
( Tomdispatch.com ) – A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New […]
Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran with the Mother of all Bombs
The emboldened Netanyahu cabinet is in a war path, again. It is mobilizing to attack Iran and lobbying President Trump into a plan that presumably […]
Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses
Human Rights Watch – (Washington, DC) – The United States will be complicit in the Israeli government’s grave violations in Gaza so long as it […]
Gaza’s Water Infrastructure, deliberately destroyed by Israel, Desperately needs to be Rebuilt
Thousands of Palestinians have died because of Israeli efforts to choke off Gaza’s water supply. Immediate aid — and long-term infrastructure repairs — are essential […]
Moonbases and Solar Arrays: Will China win the Space Race as Musk’s DOGE cripples NASA?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The irrational, ignorant and often plain stupid cuts that rogue DOGE operatives of Elon Musk are making to the US […]
The Gaza Genocide and the Unravelling of US Hegemony
By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s war on Gaza has shattered whatever illusions remained about the strength of US […]
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
By Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen | – ( ProPublica ) – In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, […]
Proem: The Trauma of Gaza Scholasticide
We are closed in, and the key is turnedon our uncertainty…We had fed the heart on fantasies,the heart’s grown brutal from the fare,more substance […]
What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and Why does it still affect the Middle East Today?
By Andrew Thomas, Deakin University (The Conversation) – Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created […]
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