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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

11/14/2025 By The Conversation

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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Afghanistan
Collective Punishment as War Crime:  90% of Afghan Families Lack enough Food because the West is Punishing the Taliban

Collective Punishment as War Crime: 90% of Afghan Families Lack enough Food because the West is Punishing the Taliban

By John Sifton | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is spiraling into catastrophe. Millions of Afghans are now facing […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Demands for Egypt's U.S.-backed Egyptian Strongman al-Sisi to Release Activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, detained for 2 Years without Charge

Demands for Egypt’s U.S.-backed Egyptian Strongman al-Sisi to Release Activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, detained for 2 Years without Charge

By Ellery Roberts Biddle | – The life of Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah is in danger. The 39-year-old was jailed in […]

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