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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream
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Assassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State Dream

Abdullah al-Ahsan

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between Israel […]

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

Genocide as Spectacle: The Smartphone Era of War

09/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Department of War is Back; But no Wars won in Decades

The Department of War is Back; But no Wars won in Decades

09/17/2025 By William J. Astore

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Only Fools Replay Doomsday: The Cold War, Reborn and Resurgent

Only Fools Replay Doomsday: The Cold War, Reborn and Resurgent

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the early 1960s, at the height of America’s original Cold War with the Soviet Union, my old service branch, the […]

William J. Astore

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Scotland alone to nearly Double all the Offshore Wind in the World with new ScotWind Facilities

Scotland alone to nearly Double all the Offshore Wind in the World with new ScotWind Facilities

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – James Murray at BusinessGreen reports that 17 new massive offshore wind projects have been authorized off Scotland that collectively would […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Covid-19 infections soar to record 570,000 new cases in Middle East in past Week

Covid-19 infections soar to record 570,000 new cases in Middle East in past Week

( Al-Bab.com ) – Record numbers of Covid-19 infections have been reported in the Middle East and North Africa this week. Official figures show more […]

Brian Whitaker

Authoritarianism
Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

By Craig Silverman, ProPublica, Craig Timberg, The Washington Post, Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington Post | – Co-published with The Washington […]

ProPublica

African-Americans
Black Americans mostly left behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death

Black Americans mostly left behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death

By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Everything that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., struggled for is at risk in today’s America, where one of the […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

By Anthony Siracusa | – On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the Texan signed into law […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Why we Really need King's "Testament of Hope" right about Now

Why we Really need King’s “Testament of Hope” right about Now

By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad | – ( Otherwords.org ) – 2022 has begun with melancholy, as our country sees the pandemic reach new heights. Meanwhile our […]

OtherWords

Central Asia
Eurasia’s Ring of Fire:  The Epic Struggle over the Epicenter of U.S. Global Power

Eurasia’s Ring of Fire: The Epic Struggle over the Epicenter of U.S. Global Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Throughout 2021, Americans were absorbed in arguments over mask mandates, school closings, and the meaning of the January 6th attack on […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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