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Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel’s Wars
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Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel’s Wars

Yakov M. Rabkin

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I […]

Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

Israel’s Attacks have Exposed Iran’s Weaknesses, but it is in Little Danger of Collapsing

06/20/2025 By The Conversation

Trump can’t Stop the Green Energy Revolution any More than Horses could Stop the Automobile

Trump can’t Stop the Green Energy Revolution any More than Horses could Stop the Automobile

06/20/2025 By Alfred W. McCoy

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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Activist: The Problem is not Ignorance of Israeli Occupation's Brutality, it is Inaction

Palestinian Activist: The Problem is not Ignorance of Israeli Occupation’s Brutality, it is Inaction

“I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious.” Those are the words of Mohammed […]

Asa Winstanley

Dissent
Iran: Deadly Repression of Khuzestan Protests: Hundreds Arrested; At Least 9 Deaths, Including a Child (HRW)

Iran: Deadly Repression of Khuzestan Protests: Hundreds Arrested; At Least 9 Deaths, Including a Child (HRW)

( Human Rights Watch) – (Beirut) – The rising death toll and mass arrests raise grave concerns about the Iranian authorities’ response to recent protests […]

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Russia
Is Russia Helping Syria or Stripping it of its Few Remaining Resources?

Is Russia Helping Syria or Stripping it of its Few Remaining Resources?

By Scott Lucas | – All the standard public relations ploys were in evidence for the recent meeting between Syria’s leader Bashar al-Assad and Russian […]

The Conversation

Archaeology
The U.S. Committed Cliocide (Destruction of History) in Iraq, and even Returning Gilgamesh Can't Fix it

The U.S. Committed Cliocide (Destruction of History) in Iraq, and even Returning Gilgamesh Can’t Fix it

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US government has returned 17,000 archeological artifacts to Iraq, many of them over 4,000 years old. This, according to […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Ways Coal and Gasoline-Driven Ocean Change can Threaten Human Health

Top 5 Ways Coal and Gasoline-Driven Ocean Change can Threaten Human Health

By Tiff-Annie Kenny, Malaya Bishop and Mélanie Lemire | – Humans have a deep and complex relationship with the sea. It provides food and essential […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel: Germany's Mega-Floods are a Wake-Up Call that We need Radical Climate Action, Now

Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel: Germany’s Mega-Floods are a Wake-Up Call that We need Radical Climate Action, Now

Prof. Dr. Eicke R. Weber 10625 Berlin An Bundeskanzlerin Dr. Angela Merkel Bundeskanzleramt Willi-Brandt-Straße 1 10557 Berlin July 25, 2021 Dear Chancellor Dr. Merkel, We […]

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Militarization
From Arsenal of Democracy to Arsenal of Empire: Let's Abandon Ruinous Foreign Wars for Actual Self-Defense

From Arsenal of Democracy to Arsenal of Empire: Let’s Abandon Ruinous Foreign Wars for Actual Self-Defense

( Tomdispatch.com) – As a ROTC cadet and an Air Force officer, I was a tiny part of America’s vast Department of Defense (DoD) for […]

William J. Astore

History
Disruption -- David Potter discusses Radical Change in History (Constantine, Muhammad, Trump) with Juan Cole on "Literati at Home"

Disruption — David Potter discusses Radical Change in History (Constantine, Muhammad, Trump) with Juan Cole on “Literati at Home”

At Home with Literati: David Potter & Juan Cole The book is David Potter, Disruption: Why things Change — order from Literati Bookstore. “How do […]

Juan Cole

Anti-Vaccination
It is Time to Call Republican Rejection of Vaccines and Masks what it is: Selfish

It is Time to Call Republican Rejection of Vaccines and Masks what it is: Selfish

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Washington Post reports that the rate of coronavirus infections is twice as high in Trump-voting counties as in Biden-voting […]

Juan Cole

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