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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

09/19/2025 By Juan Cole

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

09/19/2025 By Tomdispatch

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“Niagara Falls becoming Horizontal:” NOAA warns of nearly 1 foot Sea Level Rise in 30 years, “Common” High Tide Floods

“Niagara Falls becoming Horizontal:” NOAA warns of nearly 1 foot Sea Level Rise in 30 years, “Common” High Tide Floods

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The sea level along the US coastline in the lower 48 will rise as much in just the next 30 […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Jared Kushner's Sham "Abraham Accords" unleashed more ME Conflict, and don't Deserve a Nobel

Jared Kushner’s Sham “Abraham Accords” unleashed more ME Conflict, and don’t Deserve a Nobel

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Jared Kushner’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, for authoring the Abraham Accords (along with his deputy Avi […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Coal
How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat

How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat

By Gabriel Filippelli | – People fishing along the banks of the White River as it winds through Indianapolis sometimes pass by ominous signs warning […]

The Conversation

Cold War
America’s Disastrous 60-Year War: Three Generations of Conspicuous Destruction by the Military-Industrial Complex

America’s Disastrous 60-Year War: Three Generations of Conspicuous Destruction by the Military-Industrial Complex

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In my lifetime of nearly 60 years, America has waged five major wars, winning one decisively, then throwing that victory away, […]

William J. Astore

Climate Crisis
Not Since Charlemagne: Megadrought in US Southwest, boosted by Human CO2 emissions, is worst since 800 AD

Not Since Charlemagne: Megadrought in US Southwest, boosted by Human CO2 emissions, is worst since 800 AD

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The megadrought in the US West has produced drier conditions as of the past year than any seen in over […]

Juan Cole

Canada
How a Fringe in Canada caught the Far Right Trump Disease, fueled by US Money and Fox

How a Fringe in Canada caught the Far Right Trump Disease, fueled by US Money and Fox

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Using behemoth-sized vehicles as weapons, truckers shut down Canada’s capitol city Ottawa and blocked several bridges to the United […]

Dan Dinello

Climate Crisis
We need to cut Carbon, not fall for the Scam of Trying to Capture it

We need to cut Carbon, not fall for the Scam of Trying to Capture it

By Jason MacLean | – When the federal government released the budget in April 2021, it proposed creating a new tax credit for private firms […]

The Conversation

Israel Lobbies
Criticizing Israeli Policies is not Antisemitism, and Arizona Teachers Shouldn’t be deprived of 1st Amendment Rights

Criticizing Israeli Policies is not Antisemitism, and Arizona Teachers Shouldn’t be deprived of 1st Amendment Rights

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association: Letter Protesting proposed adoption of flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism for Arizona institutions of higher education by […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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What Israel is doing to Palestine just as Bad as what Russia is doing to Ukraine, but US doesn't Care

What Israel is doing to Palestine just as Bad as what Russia is doing to Ukraine, but US doesn’t Care

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US government has been accused of hyping the crisis between the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, where some 120,000 […]

Juan Cole

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