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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

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On Int’l Women’s Day:  In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

From Gaza to Syria: The unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler-Colonialism

( Middle East Monitor ) – The conversation on settler-colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, demonstrated clearly in […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump

By May Darwich, University of Birmingham (The Conversation) – US president Donald Trump famously called Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi his “favourite dictator” in 2019, […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Shamash!  “The Threat”

Shamash! “The Threat”

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Juan Cole

Corruption
Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism

Here is my column this week for Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch at The Nation Institute. Do check in on his poignant and insightful introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ( RFE/RL ) – Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

censorship
Protesting to NY Gov. Hochul for Quashing the Palestinian Studies Post at Hunter College

Protesting to NY Gov. Hochul for Quashing the Palestinian Studies Post at Hunter College

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – The Honorable Kathy Hochul Governor of the State of New York Governor.Hochul@exec.ny.gov   . . […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Authoritarianism
Dumb and Dumber: Trump’s Tariffs will cost each U.S. family $1072, wipe out Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Dumb and Dumber: Trump’s Tariffs will cost each U.S. family $1072, wipe out Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Vancouver (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Just about every day, the U.S. president does something that is incompetent, dangerous, or stupid. Often all three. […]

Peter G. Prontzos

Corruption
Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee

Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee

By Robert Faturechi | – ( ProPublica ) – Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress […]

ProPublica

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