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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
Academic Freedom

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

H. Scott Prosterman

Censoring academic content does nothing to promote “a safe learning environment,” as Newsom’s signing statement concludes.

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COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

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Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

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Israel/ Palestine
Remembering Israel's Brutal massacre of Palestinian Civilians in Kafr Qasem

Remembering Israel’s Brutal massacre of Palestinian Civilians in Kafr Qasem

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s seemingly never-ending drive to uproot Palestinians from their homes by force of arms […]

Middle East Monitor

Africa
Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa

Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa

By Oli Mould | – Director Denis Villeneuve’s most recent sci-fi epic is the latest attempt to tell the story of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed 1965 […]

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Climate Crisis
Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia may succeed in preventing Congress from legislating the quick demise of coal and gas […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Human Rights? Saudi Arabia put a Child Dissident on Death Row for 10 Years, but has Finally Released him

Human Rights? Saudi Arabia put a Child Dissident on Death Row for 10 Years, but has Finally Released him

By Bill Van Esveld | Associate Director, MENA, Children’s Rights Division | – Nearly ten years after Ali al-Nimr was arrested by Saudi authorities in […]

Human Rights Watch

African-Americans
Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home:  Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home: Reparations May Be One Cure for What Ails Us

By Mattea Kramer | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young […]

Tomdispatch

Denialism
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

By Benjamin Franta | – Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden […]

The Conversation

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Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Israeli Government defies President Biden, announces 3K new Squatter Dwellings on Palestinian Land

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab48 reports that Israeli authorities are authorizing 3,144 new housing units for squatters on Palestinian-owned land in […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East?  New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

Is the Pandemic finally Subsiding in the Middle East? New Infections at Lowest Level for More than a Year

( Al-Bab.com) – New Covid-19 cases recorded in the Middle East and North Africa averaged 19,075 a day last week. This is the first time […]

Brian Whitaker

Climate Crisis
How to Truly ‘Build Back Better’ on Climate

How to Truly ‘Build Back Better’ on Climate

This commentary was jointly produced by In These Times and Foreign Policy In Focus. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The infrastructure and budget reconciliation […]

Basav Sen

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