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Assaults on US Academic Freedom:  Acquiescence and Resistance
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Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance

H. Scott Prosterman

Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history

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Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

11/17/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

11/17/2025 By Tomdispatch

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China’s Year in Climate Action: Challenges for World’s Leader in Renewable Energy

China’s Year in Climate Action: Challenges for World’s Leader in Renewable Energy

By Ma Tianjie | – ( China Dialogue) – It’s been a dizzying period for watchers of China’s climate and environmental scene. President Xi Jinping’s […]

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Arab Americans
Fighting repression in the Land of the Free: an Arab-American feminist Perspective

Fighting repression in the Land of the Free: an Arab-American feminist Perspective

By Nadine Suleiman Naber | – ( OpenDemocracy) – For decades, US and European governments, as well as corporate media, have been condemning authoritarian repression […]

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Why Germany is Going Nuclear-Free and how it Caused Green Energy to Skyrocket

Why Germany is Going Nuclear-Free and how it Caused Green Energy to Skyrocket

Excerpted from an article by Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Germany’s energy transition is not only its main means for […]

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A Warm thanks to Informed Comment Readers – The Best People

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New Year Joy:  the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

New Year Joy: the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I am rewriting a previous essay here, quoting some extra poems different from the ones I used last year, but […]

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Why ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is a lesson in Restorative Justice needed by our Vindictive Politics

Why ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is a lesson in Restorative Justice needed by our Vindictive Politics

Raven Yamamoto | – This article contains spoilers for “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” ( Waging Nonviolence) – I went into “Spider-Man: No Way Home” thinking […]

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Israel/ Palestine
New Leftist President of Chile is an ardent supporter of Palestinian Rights

New Leftist President of Chile is an ardent supporter of Palestinian Rights

( Middle East Monitor ) – In Chile, where the largest population of Palestinians in Latin America resides, the Leftist candidate Gabriel Boric has won […]

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How Affordable Child Care will turbocharge the US Economy

How Affordable Child Care will turbocharge the US Economy

By Mary C. King | – Child care is one of the biggest expenses many families face — in much of the country, it can […]

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Top 3 Pieces of Good News in 2021 - Because Optimists are the Problem Solvers

Top 3 Pieces of Good News in 2021 – Because Optimists are the Problem Solvers

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – News corporations think good news does not sell, which is why you see so little of it on television or […]

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