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Greta Thunberg and 11 other Volunteers set out on Mercy Mission to Gaza
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Greta Thunberg and 11 other Volunteers set out on Mercy Mission to Gaza

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Anadolu Agency reports that the humanitarian aid ship, the “Madeleine,” set out for Gaza on Sunday from Catania in […]

Climate Change and the Border-Industrial Complex in the Trump Era

Climate Change and the Border-Industrial Complex in the Trump Era

06/02/2025 By Tomdispatch

Iran faces Twin Power-Grid and Nutritional Crises

Iran faces Twin Power-Grid and Nutritional Crises

06/02/2025 By Global Voices

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Green Enterprise: 1 Gigawatt He Dreiht North Sea Wind Farm receives no Gov’t Subsidies

Green Enterprise: 1 Gigawatt He Dreiht North Sea Wind Farm receives no Gov’t Subsidies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first giant Vestas offshore wind turbine of the German He Dreiht (“It Spins”) project in the North Sea has […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
‘Killing all Humanity’: 2 Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in ‘Horrific’ Washington, DC Shooting

‘Killing all Humanity’: 2 Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in ‘Horrific’ Washington, DC Shooting

“We are grounded first and foremost in the belief that all human life is precious, which is precisely why we are struggling for a world […]

Common Dreams

Israel/ Palestine
Israelis’ Blinkered Media Drive Public Doubts on Gaza’s Hunger Plight

Israelis’ Blinkered Media Drive Public Doubts on Gaza’s Hunger Plight

By Jori Breslawski, Tel Aviv University and Carlo Koos, University of Bergen (The Conversation) – Under mounting international pressure, Israel announced on May 19, 2025, […]

The Conversation

Colonialism
500 Years of Inflicted Horrors, from the New World to Israel

500 Years of Inflicted Horrors, from the New World to Israel

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in […]

Greg Grandin

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Islam:  A New History

Islam: A New History

A Review of Islam: A New History, from Muhammad to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2025) by John Tolan Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

Joseph Richard Preville

Iran
As US Pushes For Zero Enrichment, Iran Insists It Won’t Give Up Nuclear Program

As US Pushes For Zero Enrichment, Iran Insists It Won’t Give Up Nuclear Program

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda and Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff declared that the Donald Trump administration’s “red line” in […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s Policies have already Created Catastrophic Starvation Risk for Millions in Gaza: a Trickle of Aid won’t Avert It

Israel’s Policies have already Created Catastrophic Starvation Risk for Millions in Gaza: a Trickle of Aid won’t Avert It

By Yara M. Asi, University of Central Florida (The Conversation) – After 18 months of punishing airstrikes, raids and an increasingly restrictive siege in Gaza, […]

The Conversation

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From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope

From Gaza to America and Vietnam, the Prospect of a Peacemaker Pope

Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It’s not surprising that Pope Leo XIV took the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII […]

Richard Penaskovic

Academic Freedom
Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

Protesting NYU’s Withholding of Degree over Gaza Protest

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Letter to New York University concerning its decision to withhold the degree of graduating senior Logan […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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