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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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Epitaph for a Failed US Occupation: The Late Gen. Odierno's Arch-Nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq

Epitaph for a Failed US Occupation: The Late Gen. Odierno’s Arch-Nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The elections in Iraq have brought it briefly back into U.S. headlines, though it is a long time since Americans […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghan women have a long history of taking leadership and fighting for their rights

Afghan women have a long history of taking leadership and fighting for their rights

By Wazhmah Osman and Helena Zeweri | – Ever since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the question in much of the Western media has been, “What […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
President Biden reverses Trump cuts to national monuments sacred to Native Americans, restores Bears Ears

President Biden reverses Trump cuts to national monuments sacred to Native Americans, restores Bears Ears

By Diannie Chavez | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden restored Bears Ears National Monument to its previous 1.36 million-acres footprint […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

Climate Crisis
To  end Fossil Fuels, take the Fight directly to the Corporations - That's how Apartheid Fell

To end Fossil Fuels, take the Fight directly to the Corporations – That’s how Apartheid Fell

By Donna Katzin | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – On September 9, Harvard University President Larry Bacow heralded the university’s commitment to shift […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis
No, Renewables didn't cause the Global Energy Crisis; Strangling Iranian Gas and failing to put in Enough Wind and Solar Did

No, Renewables didn’t cause the Global Energy Crisis; Strangling Iranian Gas and failing to put in Enough Wind and Solar Did

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the world starts back up after the pandemic, the price of energy is spiking, as Pippa Stevens at CNBC […]

Juan Cole

Brazil
Our Health depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants that are rapidly being Destroyed

Our Health depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants that are rapidly being Destroyed

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – While mainstream media celebrate the remarkable development in record time of vaccines spectacularly effective against the Covid […]

John Buell

Israel/ Palestine
Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues

Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues

Human Rights Watch – (Washington, DC) – Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried […]

Human Rights Watch

Colonialism
Why 'Indigenous Peoples' Day is Replacing 'Columbus Day'

Why ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Replacing ‘Columbus Day’

By Susan C. Faircloth | – Columbus Day celebrations in the United States – meant to honor the legacy of the man credited with “discovering” […]

The Conversation

Anti-Vaccination
Wahhabi Saudi Arabia has a More Rational Vaccine Mandate than the US Republican Party

Wahhabi Saudi Arabia has a More Rational Vaccine Mandate than the US Republican Party

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Republicans, among all Americans, are the most Islamophobic or Muslim-hating, with 72% holding that Muslims are more likely than members […]

Juan Cole

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UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

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