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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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2024’s extreme Ocean Heat breaks Records again, leaving 2 Mysteries to solve

2024’s extreme Ocean Heat breaks Records again, leaving 2 Mysteries to solve

By Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology (The Conversation) – The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the […]

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Palestinian Deaths from Military attacks in Gaza 69% Higher than Estimated, 60% Women, Children, Elderly

Palestinian Deaths from Military attacks in Gaza 69% Higher than Estimated, 60% Women, Children, Elderly

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Yale has published a study in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel destroyed Gaza for Generations to come, and the World stayed Silent

Israel destroyed Gaza for Generations to come, and the World stayed Silent

( Middle East Monitor ) – The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
L. A. Fires show the Human Cost of Climate-Driven ‘Whiplash’ between Wet and Dry Extremes

L. A. Fires show the Human Cost of Climate-Driven ‘Whiplash’ between Wet and Dry Extremes

By Doug Specht, University of Westminster (The Conversation) – October to April is normally considered to be the wet season in California, yet this January, […]

The Conversation

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The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf

The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf

Review of Allen James Fromherz, The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present (Berkeley: […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Climate Crisis
As Los Angeles combusts, 2024 is declared Earth’s Hottest on Record

As Los Angeles combusts, 2024 is declared Earth’s Hottest on Record

By Andrew King, The University of Melbourne and David Karoly, The University of Melbourne (The Conversation) – The year 2024 was the world’s warmest on […]

The Conversation

Militarization
End Warness, Not Wokeness: Ten Thoughts on Curbing the Worst Excesses of U.S. Militarism

End Warness, Not Wokeness: Ten Thoughts on Curbing the Worst Excesses of U.S. Militarism

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take America back (again!) to greatness, there’s been much talk of Elon Musk’s new DOGE, […]

William J. Astore

Climate Crisis
Yes, Human-Caused Climate Change Contributed to the Burning of Los Angeles

Yes, Human-Caused Climate Change Contributed to the Burning of Los Angeles

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Los Angeles wildfires destroyed over 1,000 buildings, forced thousands from their homes, and left at least five dead as […]

Juan Cole

Drones
European Union funding for Israeli AI, Tech, raises Fresh Concerns about Complicity in Genocide

European Union funding for Israeli AI, Tech, raises Fresh Concerns about Complicity in Genocide

By Melike Pala | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) funded by European Union research programmes to target […]

Middle East Monitor

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