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A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran:  When Journalists are the Target
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A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran: When Journalists are the Target

Fariba Amini

“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” – ― Stefan […]

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

09/03/2025 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Researching the Roots of War to Fight Militarism

Researching the Roots of War to Fight Militarism

09/03/2025 By William D. Hartung

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A Yemen Catastrophe that America helped Make (Pearson Inst. Video with Juan Cole)

A Yemen Catastrophe that America helped Make (Pearson Inst. Video with Juan Cole)

Pearson Institute Panel on Catastrophe in Yemen from October 13, with Juan Cole among the panelists. Pearson Institute: Yemen in Neglect My (much more expert-on-Yemen […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
"To Dirty it!" On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner's Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight

“To Dirty it!” On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner’s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, pop culture icon William Shatner, Star Trek‘s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, explained the enormity of seeing the earth […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Pain of Palestinians in Gaza

The Pain of Palestinians in Gaza

By Hamada Fara’na | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Even the Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, couldn’t bear the tragic scene of thousands of […]

Middle East Monitor

Banking
Make them Pay Up: Pandora Leaks show that the Super-Rich rob Public of $200 bn a year in lost Tax Revenues

Make them Pay Up: Pandora Leaks show that the Super-Rich rob Public of $200 bn a year in lost Tax Revenues

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The rich have always flaunted their wealth. It was rarely good enough to enjoy financial success, you had […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

By Siddharth Joshi, James Glynn and Shivika Mittal | – Rooftop solar panels are up to 79% cheaper than they were in 2010. These plummeting […]

The Conversation

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Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Progressives in Congress: Biden must do More to End Saudi War on Yemen, as Starvation Stalks its Children

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden says he wants to end the Yemen war, but eight months in, he has not made a dent […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
‘Sindyanna of Galilee’: Extending the olive branch between Arabs and Israelis

‘Sindyanna of Galilee’: Extending the olive branch between Arabs and Israelis

By Coco Cresswell | – ( Globalvoices.org) – In 1996 Hadas Lahav, a Jewish Israeli social activist, had a vision: a future of Arab-Israeli coexistence. […]

Global Voices

Government surveillance
I’ll be Watching You:  Military Dependents under Surveillance

I’ll be Watching You: Military Dependents under Surveillance

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – I know what it means to be watched all too carefully, a phenomenon that’s only grown […]

Tomdispatch

Inequality
Could Lebanon, Looted and mismanaged by its Plutocrats, become a Failed State?

Could Lebanon, Looted and mismanaged by its Plutocrats, become a Failed State?

By Tony Walker | – In the midst of a pandemic that has wrenched the world off its axis, Lebanon’s precipitous decline has not received […]

The Conversation

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Local Journalists and Fixers are being Killed by Israel at unprecedented Rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

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