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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

08/23/2025 By ProPublica

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

08/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Armenia
After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

After Thirty Years, are Turkey and Armenia really Ready to Normalize Relations?

By Arzu Geybullayeva | – ( GlobalVoices.org) – Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 during the first Karabakh war in a show of […]

Global Voices

Employment
How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

How Finding that immigrants don’t reduce the wages of native-born workers won the Nobel Prize

By Arvind Magesan | – Applied economists spend a large fraction of their time trying to squeeze meaningful answers — causal effects — out of […]

The Conversation

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Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Band of 30 militant Israeli Squatters attack Palestinian Farmers, Steal Olive Harvest in continued Sabotage that has seen 1 mn Olive Trees destroyed by Israelis since 1967

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Friday, some thirty militant Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives from […]

Juan Cole

Germany
Germany: Tesla's Electric Car sales overtake leading domestic automakers in September

Germany: Tesla’s Electric Car sales overtake leading domestic automakers in September

By Edgar Meza | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Tesla is flying high in Germany: In September, more electric Tesla Model 3s were registered […]

Clean Energy Wire

Hizbullah
Violence has broken out in Beirut Again, but it isn't Senseless - it is caused by what Lebanon has not Done

Violence has broken out in Beirut Again, but it isn’t Senseless – it is caused by what Lebanon has not Done

By Lama Fakih, Crisis and Conflict Division | – ( Human Rights Watch) – Scenes from Lebanon shocked residents and the world on Thursday when […]

Human Rights Watch

Houthi
Yemen: Will talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran offer hopes for an end to bitter seven-year civil war?

Yemen: Will talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran offer hopes for an end to bitter seven-year civil war?

By Simon Mabon | – Recent statements from Iran and Saudi Arabia have provided hope that a pathway might be emerging to an end to […]

The Conversation

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Is Sec. of State Antony Blinken as bad as Mike Pompeo?  Silent on Israeli theft of Palestinian Land, Promoting Phony Abraham Accords

Is Sec. of State Antony Blinken as bad as Mike Pompeo? Silent on Israeli theft of Palestinian Land, Promoting Phony Abraham Accords

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken is shaping up to be as much of a disaster as secretary of state as […]

Juan Cole

Antisemitism
Bogus charges of Antisemitism and the Case of Rashida Tlaib

Bogus charges of Antisemitism and the Case of Rashida Tlaib

By David Rubenstein | – ( Southside Pride) – You have to wonder how many people actually listened to the allegedly antisemitic comments made by […]

David Rubenstein

Afghanistan
Leaving Afghanistan was a No-Brainer - the Rise of Illiberal Schmittian Regimes is now the big Danger to U.S.

Leaving Afghanistan was a No-Brainer – the Rise of Illiberal Schmittian Regimes is now the big Danger to U.S.

By Scott Corey | – (Special to Informed Comment) – On October of 2009, I published an essay on Informed Comment advocating that the US […]

Scott Corey

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