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Genocide Scholars:  Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
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Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 […]

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

The Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit and the Middle East in a Multipolar World

09/06/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza

09/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate change: Saudi Arabia and OPEC resisting action on fossil fuels

Climate change: Saudi Arabia and OPEC resisting action on fossil fuels

( al-Bab.com) – Leaked documents show that Saudi Arabia and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have been lobbying to water down a crucial […]

Brian Whitaker

censorship
Oil Giant BP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners

Oil Giant BP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners

By Martin Williams, Lucas Amin and Gabriel Pogrund | ( Opendemocracy.net ) – Oil and gas giant BP spent years spying on peaceful climate campaigners […]

Open Democracy

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Becoming Typical Mideast Dictatorship, Apartheid Israel Declares Palestinian Human Rights Groups "Terrorists"

Becoming Typical Mideast Dictatorship, Apartheid Israel Declares Palestinian Human Rights Groups “Terrorists”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera English reports that on Friday, the Israeli government declared six human rights organizations active in the Occupied Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Evict Minority Shia —  Hazaras Targets of Collective Punishment

Afghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Evict Minority Shia — Hazaras Targets of Collective Punishment

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Taliban officials in several provinces across Afghanistan have forcibly displaced residents partly to distribute land to their own […]

Human Rights Watch

Far Right
Oath Keepers in the State House: How a Militia Movement Took Root in the Republican Mainstream

Oath Keepers in the State House: How a Militia Movement Took Root in the Republican Mainstream

By Isaac Arnsdorf | – A membership roster for the Oath Keepers, a violent extremist group whose followers have been charged in the Jan. 6 […]

ProPublica

Climate Crisis
Pacific Islanders to Climate COP26: Limit Global Heating or We are Sunk

Pacific Islanders to Climate COP26: Limit Global Heating or We are Sunk

By Wesley Morgan | – The Pacific Islands are at the frontline of climate change. But as rising seas threaten their very existence, these tiny […]

The Conversation

Bill of Rights
Bannon Vote: Republicans once Voted to Hold Hollywood 10 in Contempt for Making Leftist Movies but won't act on Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Gov't

Bannon Vote: Republicans once Voted to Hold Hollywood 10 in Contempt for Making Leftist Movies but won’t act on Far-Right Plot to Overthrow Gov’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anyone who knows the history of abuse in the Congress’s prerogative of subpoenaing witnesses and holding people in contempt for […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Brazilian Senate Panel urges Pres. Bolsonaro be Charged with Crimes against Humanity for killing 150K by worsening Pandemic

Brazilian Senate Panel urges Pres. Bolsonaro be Charged with Crimes against Humanity for killing 150K by worsening Pandemic

By Matt Williams | – A Brazilian congressional panel has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” over his alleged bungling […]

The Conversation

Books
Citizen Pilgrim:  Richard Falk’s Breakthrough against Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians

Citizen Pilgrim: Richard Falk’s Breakthrough against Israeli Apartheid toward Palestinians

A review of Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, by Richard Falk. By Walden Bello | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Richard […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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