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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?
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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human-caused global heating is hitting the Middle East hard, and rates of cancer in Middle Eastern women are increasing. Is […]

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

06/12/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

06/12/2025 By The Conversation

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Improved Medicare for All Can Heal This Sick Country

Improved Medicare for All Can Heal This Sick Country

( Commondreams.org ) – It’s the beginning of the end for corporate control of health care. The tsunami of outrage against the health insurance industry […]

Common Dreams

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The Fatal Despair of Exile:  An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

The Fatal Despair of Exile: An Iran they could neither Live in nor Leave Behind

Nothing takes me from the butterflies of my dreams to my reality: not dust and not fire. What will I do without roses from Samarkand? […]

Fariba Amini

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What I Learned after the End of History

What I Learned after the End of History

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

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Israel/Palestine: An Abyss of Human Suffering in Gaza and a Biden Double Standard

Israel/Palestine: An Abyss of Human Suffering in Gaza and a Biden Double Standard

( Human Rights Watch) – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military killed, wounded, starved, and forcibly displaced Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2024, and destroyed their homes, schools, […]

Human Rights Watch

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The Fatal Effort to Dismantle the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees

The Fatal Effort to Dismantle the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees

Over the past 15 months, the international community has failed to prevent genocidal atrocities in Gaza. Dismantling the UN refugee agency would perfect the nightmare. […]

Dan Steinbock

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza Deal: What it means for Peace in the Middle East

Gaza Deal: What it means for Peace in the Middle East

By Scott Lucas, University College Dublin (The Conversation) – After 15 months of bitter conflict on the Gaza Strip, a ceasefire deal has been agreed […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy

How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza: A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy

by Brett Murphy ( ProPublica ) – Empty Threats: Since Oct. 7, 2023, Biden has repeatedly issued threats that Israel ignored. U.S. officials tried to […]

ProPublica

censorship
Professor Katherine Franke on being Fired from Columbia Law School for Palestine Advocacy

Professor Katherine Franke on being Fired from Columbia Law School for Palestine Advocacy

Statement from Katherine Franke, January 10, 2025 For the last year and a half, as students at Columbia University and across the globe have protested […]

Katherine M. Franke

Lebanon
Lebanon’s new President faces uphill Struggle to steer Country away from Brink of Collapse

Lebanon’s new President faces uphill Struggle to steer Country away from Brink of Collapse

By John Nagle, Queen’s University Belfast and Drew Mikhael, Queen’s University Belfast Lebanon’s parliament elected a new president on January 9 after a two-year political […]

The Conversation

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