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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Frida Berrigan

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Antisemitism
Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Trivializing the Holocaust: Georgia GOP Senatorial Wannabe Herschel Walker Fumbles Backwards, Coached by Trump

Oakland, CA. (Special to Informed Comment) – Maybe Republicans don’t know the historical significance of the swastika. Many don’t know the history of WWII. Thanks […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Crime
Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

Top Trump Fundraiser Boasted of Raising $3 Million to Support Jan. 6 “Save America” Rally

By Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan | – The Insurrection The Effort to Overturn the Election ( ProPublica) – As much as $3 million may […]

ProPublica

Afghanistan
How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism

How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism

By Luis Edel Abreu Veranes | – From the turbulent 1970s ( Middle East Monitor) – With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan […]

Middle East Monitor

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Will Israel's Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Will Israel’s Muslim Fundamentalists help Pass Marijuana Bill?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jack Khoury and Noa Shpigel report at Haaretz that the Israeli government is advancing a marijuana bill that may gain […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement would bring Stability to Mideast, but would it make America Irrelevant?

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Since 1979, when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and held American […]

Middle East Monitor

Afghanistan
Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

Celebrating Rep. Barbara Lee, our Cassandra who warned against the Failed 20-Year Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For decades, I kept a poster on my wall that I’d saved from the year I turned 16. In its upper […]

Rebecca Gordon

Climate Crisis
Can the Collapse of West Antarctica's Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

Can the Collapse of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be Avoided?

By Dan Lowry, Mario Krapp, and Nick Golledge | – ( The Conversation) – Rising seas are already making storm damage more costly, adding to […]

The Conversation

CO2
Sordid Advantage: America can't avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Sordid Advantage: America can’t avert Climate Hellhole because Manchin, Sinema are Corporate Hired Mercenaries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t […]

Juan Cole

China
The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

The US and China must cooperate in Face of Climate Armageddon, not fall into New Cold War

( Tomdispatch.com) – This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the Beginning of the End: the end of Earth as we know it — a […]

Michael T. Klare

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