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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Why is Iran so Central to US Policy?   An Interview with Doyen of US Iran Experts, Gary Sick (Pt. 1)

Why is Iran so Central to US Policy? An Interview with Doyen of US Iran Experts, Gary Sick (Pt. 1)

Gary Sick was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter.   He was present at the White House during some turbulent times- the Iranian revolution, […]

Fariba Amini

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Committing War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing in N. Gaza: Former Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon

Israel Committing War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing in N. Gaza: Former Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon

( Middle East Monitor ) – Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon accused the army on Sunday of committing war crimes in the northern Gaza […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
Trump’s Second Coming: “I never realized before that men hate us so much.”

Trump’s Second Coming: “I never realized before that men hate us so much.”

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers […]

Rebecca Gordon

Bashar al-Assad
Syria as Putin's Afghanistan: How a Radical Fundamentalist take-over of Damascus could Change the Middle East

Syria as Putin’s Afghanistan: How a Radical Fundamentalist take-over of Damascus could Change the Middle East

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS (Hay’at […]

Juan Cole

International Criminal Court
Netherlands Supreme Court advised to uphold Israel F-35 Components Export Ban

Netherlands Supreme Court advised to uphold Israel F-35 Components Export Ban

( Middle East Monitor ) – The advocate general of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the country’s highest court, was advised on Friday to […]

Middle East Monitor

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A tax on new Plastic would slash Waste – if built into the global Treaty on Plastics

A tax on new Plastic would slash Waste – if built into the global Treaty on Plastics

By Amelia Leavesley, The University of Melbourne (The Conversation) – Earlier this week, the mining magnate Andrew Forrest made headlines calling for a global “polymer […]

The Conversation

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Killing One innocent Soul is the Same as Killing all of Humanity: Jewish and Muslim Teachings against Cosmocide

Killing One innocent Soul is the Same as Killing all of Humanity: Jewish and Muslim Teachings against Cosmocide

The below is an excerpt from my essay, “The Sin of Cosmocide,” for Renovatio, the literary magazine of Zaytuna, the Muslim liberal arts college in […]

Juan Cole

International Criminal Court
Hypocritical Rejection of Netanyahu Warrant: Washington Holds that the Int’l Criminal Court is only for Enemies and People of Color

Hypocritical Rejection of Netanyahu Warrant: Washington Holds that the Int’l Criminal Court is only for Enemies and People of Color

( Middle East Monitor ) – The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister […]

Ramzy Baroud

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s cultural Heritage has been devastated by the Conflict with Israel – this is how we’re documenting the Damage

Gaza’s cultural Heritage has been devastated by the Conflict with Israel – this is how we’re documenting the Damage

By Michael Fradley, University of Oxford; Andrew Petersen, University of Bradford, and Bill Finlayson, University of Oxford (The Conversation) – Situated at the junction between […]

The Conversation

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