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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program
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Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking […]

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction

08/29/2025 By The Conversation

From Guernica to Gaza:  The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

08/29/2025 By Norman Solomon

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Authoritarianism
2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World

2021: a grim year for Free Speech as hundreds of Journalists are arrested in an increasingly authoritarian World

By Dina Matar | – Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speech and […]

The Conversation

Conspiracy Theories
Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country

Why our Democracy is Ailing: Another Grim winter for our Unmasked, Unvaccinated, Disputatious, Confrontational, Conspiratorial, and disturbed Country

( Tomdispatch.com) – Whether the pandemic that’s swept the world started from a bat or not, as 2021 ends, I think it’s safe to say […]

Tom Engelhardt

Archaeology
Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine

Israeli Archeologists find Christian Ring with Image of Christ as Shepherd in Shipwreck from era of Constantine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A marine unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority diving off the ruins of the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima has […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
American Colonialism Left Iraq in Environmental Crisis, Polluted, Corrupt and Crime-Ridden

American Colonialism Left Iraq in Environmental Crisis, Polluted, Corrupt and Crime-Ridden

By Haifa Zangana | – (Middle East Monitor ) – The devastation caused by man to the environment is no longer a secret; nature is […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods and swallow Islands

Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods and swallow Islands

By Ella Gilbert | – The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
Congress Keeps Spending Nearly 1/4 of our Budget on the Pentagon, but it Hasn’t won any Wars for Decades

Congress Keeps Spending Nearly 1/4 of our Budget on the Pentagon, but it Hasn’t won any Wars for Decades

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Anti-Vaccination
Without Biden's Vaccination Program, a Million and a Half Americans would have died in 2021 and 12 mn would have been Hospitalized

Without Biden’s Vaccination Program, a Million and a Half Americans would have died in 2021 and 12 mn would have been Hospitalized

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden made a major pandemic policy speech on Tuesday, pleading with Americans to get vaccinated, and, indeed, to get […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
90% of California’s Precious Joshua Trees are in Danger from the Climate Emergency

90% of California’s Precious Joshua Trees are in Danger from the Climate Emergency

By Jude Binkley | – ( Cronkite News) – JOSHUA TREE, Calif. – More than a decade ago, Brendan Cummings was living in this desert […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Israel/ Palestine
Newly released Records Document Zionist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948

Newly released Records Document Zionist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948

( Middle East Monitor) – An investigative report in Haaretz — “Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew” […]

Ramzy Baroud

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Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

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Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

The Conversation

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