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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 is determined to Criminalize Boycott Movement, but Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream struck a blow for First Amendment

Israel is determined to Criminalize Boycott Movement, but Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream struck a blow for First Amendment

( Middle East Monitor) – Ben & Jerry’s decision to suspend its operations in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is an event that is proving […]

Ramzy Baroud

Islam
Yemen and the Prophet Muhammad: Abdulrahman al-Eryani interviews Juan Cole

Yemen and the Prophet Muhammad: Abdulrahman al-Eryani interviews Juan Cole

Abdulrahman al-Eryani interviewed me on his InBoundTalk show on YouTube (link below) about my book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires Available […]

Juan Cole

Dissent
'Hopeless And Dissatisfied': Growing Anger At Iranian Officials As Khuzestan Water Protests Spread

‘Hopeless And Dissatisfied’: Growing Anger At Iranian Officials As Khuzestan Water Protests Spread

By Golnaz Esfandiari and Mohammad Zarghami | – ( RFE/RL) – Analysts say economic desperation and growing frustration in Iranian society have led to angry […]

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Agriculture
More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: the Climate Crisis is Worsening despite Politicians' "Commitments"

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: the Climate Crisis is Worsening despite Politicians’ “Commitments”

By Thomas Newsome, Christopher Wolf, and William Ripple | ( The Conversation) – Back in 2019, more than 11,000 scientists declared a global climate emergency. […]

The Conversation

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Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human Rights Watch conducted a detailed study of military actions by Israel and the Hamas party-militia in Gaza and concluded […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

By Homa Hoodfar and Mona Tajali | – The Taliban insurgents continue their deadly war to seize control of Afghanistan after the departure of United […]

The Conversation

Health Care
Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – By essentially rejecting the provisions of the U.S.Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, a very well designed […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

al-Qaeda
Imperial Overstretch:  Is the American Empire going the way of the Soviet Union?

Imperial Overstretch: Is the American Empire going the way of the Soviet Union?

By Tom Engelhardt | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers. Do you even remember […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn't

Sleight-of-Hand in Baghdad: The Biden Pull-Out from Iraq that Isn’t

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mursi Abu Tawq at Al-Zaman (The Times“) in Baghdad reports that President Joe Biden on Monday announced that the US […]

Juan Cole

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