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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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COP26: Biden first President to Back Sweeping Measures on Climate, as for-profit Press lets Denialist Republicans off the Hook

COP26: Biden first President to Back Sweeping Measures on Climate, as for-profit Press lets Denialist Republicans off the Hook

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) | – On Monday, President Joe Biden addressed the UN COP26 climate conference, declaring the 2020s the “critical decade.” It was […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian dispossession by Israel and the Sham of the 30-year "Peace Process"

Palestinian dispossession by Israel and the Sham of the 30-year “Peace Process”

By Inès Abdel Razek | – ( Al-Shabakah) – The so-called Middle East Peace Process has ensured Palestinians’ oppression by a military regime bent on […]

Al-Shabaka

Arab World
How Lebanon became the latest Battlefield in the Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran

How Lebanon became the latest Battlefield in the Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran

By Amira Abo el-Fetouh | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Lebanon is plagued by crises, with a new one added almost daily. The […]

Middle East Monitor

Brazil
From the Amazon, Indigenous Peoples offer new compass to navigate climate change

From the Amazon, Indigenous Peoples offer new compass to navigate climate change

By Dallas Hunt, Cash Ahenakew, Sharon Stein, Vanessa Andreotti, and Will Valley | – Universities in western Canada began another school year under the cloud […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
COP26: Climate Disaster Stalks Morocco even as it Strives for Wind, Solar

COP26: Climate Disaster Stalks Morocco even as it Strives for Wind, Solar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Since the UN Conference of Parties (COP) 26 is meeting in Glasgow this week, we will be looking at climate […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Our Problem isn't "Supply Chains" - it is that Workers and Truckers are being Stiffed

Our Problem isn’t “Supply Chains” – it is that Workers and Truckers are being Stiffed

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Weak links have been the story for much of the last year. That should force us […]

John Buell

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian resistance poetry by Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian resistance poetry by Mahmoud Darwish

By Sayid Marcos Tenório | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Mahmoud Darwish is the most internationally-renowned Palestinian poet and writer, although still little-known […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
America’s Toxic Militarism has left Afghanistan, but Afghan Women are still Living with its Consequences

America’s Toxic Militarism has left Afghanistan, but Afghan Women are still Living with its Consequences

By Ann Jones | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I know, I know. It’s the last thing you want to hear about. Twenty years of […]

Ann Jones

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Top 3 Ways Biden can restore Iran Nuclear Deal if he Really Wants To

Top 3 Ways Biden can restore Iran Nuclear Deal if he Really Wants To

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Diplomacy is the art of the possible, and so far the Biden administration isn’t showing a mastery of that art […]

Juan Cole

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