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Saudi Arabia in Modern History
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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

08/14/2025 By Global Voices

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

08/14/2025 By The Conversation

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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. […]

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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

Israel/ Palestine
Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government

By Adnan Abu Amer | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to […]

Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Ben and Jerry's Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

Ben and Jerry’s Is Shunning Israeli Settlements. The US Should Too

By Sari Bashi | Special Advisor, Program Office | – Published in: Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) ( Human Rights Watch ) – […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

By Scott Denning | – ( The Conversation) – Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada […]

The Conversation

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