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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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Israel/ Palestine
No, Opposing Israeli Apartheid Policies is not anti-Semitism, and Most Universities are rejecting IHRA Propaganda Ploy

No, Opposing Israeli Apartheid Policies is not anti-Semitism, and Most Universities are rejecting IHRA Propaganda Ploy

On the first of October, the University of Bristol fired Professor David Miller, a world renowned expert on the Israel lobby, the Zionist movement and […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why the Arctic getting more Rain than Snow will be bad news for the whole world

Why the Arctic getting more Rain than Snow will be bad news for the whole world

By Richard Hodgkins | – Before the end of this century, most of the Arctic will for the first time receive more rain than snow […]

The Conversation

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Both UN Official and US Amb. to UN Warn Israel Squatter Violence toward Palestinians is Escalating

Both UN Official and US Amb. to UN Warn Israel Squatter Violence toward Palestinians is Escalating

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, delivered alarming remarks to the United […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State

By Ali Abu Hableh | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The Israeli coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid has set its […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

By Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam | – It was April 1995, and I was preparing to travel to Afghanistan for my first volunteer post with a […]

The Conversation

Employment
The “Graveyard Shift” in a Pandemic World: The Real Meaning of Supply-Chain Woes

The “Graveyard Shift” in a Pandemic World: The Real Meaning of Supply-Chain Woes

( Tomdispatch.com) – In mid-October, President Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, […]

Rebecca Gordon

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For First Time, Wind generated more Electricity in Turkey than any other Source

For First Time, Wind generated more Electricity in Turkey than any other Source

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Daily Sabah reports that on Sunday November 28, Turkey got 22.6% of its electricity from wind power, a first […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Under Harsh Taliban Rule and Boycotted by International Donors, Afghanistan is becoming Hell on Earth

Under Harsh Taliban Rule and Boycotted by International Donors, Afghanistan is becoming Hell on Earth

By Liam Felloni | – Bristol, UK (Special to Informed Comment) – Ninety days into the Taliban takeover, the situation in the country is worsening […]

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Feminism
In Turkey women faced rubber bullets, tear gas from police as they marched to end gender-based violence

In Turkey women faced rubber bullets, tear gas from police as they marched to end gender-based violence

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( Globalvoices.org) – Hundreds of women took the streets in Istanbul to mark the International Day for the Elimination of […]

Global Voices

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