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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

09/15/2025 By Michael T. Klare

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Afghanistan
Operation Allies Welcome Resettling 70,000 Afghans in US, but they are only Guaranteed 2 Years Here

Operation Allies Welcome Resettling 70,000 Afghans in US, but they are only Guaranteed 2 Years Here

By Kathryn Libal and Scott Harding | – As of February 2022, some 65,000 Afghans evacuated during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan have settled in […]

The Conversation

Australia
Replaced by Mega-battery: Massive 3 GW Coal Plant in Australia forced to Close by Cheaper Wind and Solar

Replaced by Mega-battery: Massive 3 GW Coal Plant in Australia forced to Close by Cheaper Wind and Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Australian firm Orion Energy in New South Wales is closing its massive, nearly 3 gigawatt Eraring coal plant eight […]

Juan Cole

Eastern Europe
Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin’s aim – the threat alone could advance Russia’s goals

Invading Ukraine may never have been Putin’s aim – the threat alone could advance Russia’s goals

By Ronald Suny | – An invasion is not the only way the crisis in Ukraine can play out. A diplomatic solution may yet provide […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
My Life with Maus:  Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World

My Life with Maus: Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Sometimes life has a way of making you realize things about yourself. Recently, I discovered that an urge of mine, almost […]

Tom Engelhardt

Climate Crisis
Why we must not allow Climate change to create a dangerous state of “collective helplessness” in Liberal Society

Why we must not allow Climate change to create a dangerous state of “collective helplessness” in Liberal Society

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The “increasingly tangible” threat of climate change and other risks at a global scale, such as the coronavirus pandemic […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Donald Trump
A Republican Genocide of Quackery: COVID-19 has Killed as many Americans  as all our Wars combined

A Republican Genocide of Quackery: COVID-19 has Killed as many Americans as all our Wars combined

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The CDC now estimates that there have been 1,045,389 excess deaths since January 1, 2020, because of COVID-19. PBS estimates […]

Juan Cole

Israel Lobbies
How Glib charges of "Anti-Semitism" at every Human Rights Report on Israel undermines Jewish Civil Rights

How Glib charges of “Anti-Semitism” at every Human Rights Report on Israel undermines Jewish Civil Rights

Madison, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment) – The unqualified branding of people, organizations, reports, and movements as “anti-Semitic” for their criticism of Israel is having […]

Jennifer Loewenstein

Iran
Foes of a new Nuclear Agreement Demonize Tehran, but what is Iranian Society really Like Today?

Foes of a new Nuclear Agreement Demonize Tehran, but what is Iranian Society really Like Today?

Eau Claire, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment) – The nature and the parameters of power relations in the state-society relations in Iran since the 1978-79 […]

Ali Abootalebi

Israel
How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict is Lose-Lose for Israel

How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict is Lose-Lose for Israel

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – It is almost 3,000 kilometres from Tel Aviv to Kyiv, and yet the […]

Middle East Monitor

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