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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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Authoritarianism
Tunisia's President just made the kind of Coup Trump and US Republicans plotted (and are plotting) Against President Biden

Tunisia’s President just made the kind of Coup Trump and US Republicans plotted (and are plotting) Against President Biden

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the prime minister, prorogued parliament for 30 days, stripped parliamentarians of […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Living on a Newly Unrecognizable Planet

Living on a Newly Unrecognizable Planet

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Germany is a wealthy nation. Its business and political leaders accept the reality of climate change and […]

John Buell

Israel/ Palestine
Beita is only south Nablus town that lacks an illegal Israeli settlement and Palestinians want to Keep it that Way

Beita is only south Nablus town that lacks an illegal Israeli settlement and Palestinians want to Keep it that Way

By Anjuman Rahman | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Beita is the only village around southern Nablus that does not have an illegal […]

Middle East Monitor

Islamophobia
Fifteen years ago we shrugged off anti-Muslim hate speech. Have we evolved?

Fifteen years ago we shrugged off anti-Muslim hate speech. Have we evolved?

By Richard Moon | – In 2007, Macleans magazine published an excerpt from a book, America Alone, in which author Mark Steyn raised the alarm […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest

Climate Crisis Grips Iran with Water Shortages, Provoking Protests, Clashes in Southwest

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan region, the center of its petroleum industry, has been wracked with protests for a week, in part […]

Juan Cole

BDS Occupied Territories
Israeli Meltdown as Tel Aviv accuses Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream of "Terrorism" for Boycotting illegal Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestine

Israeli Meltdown as Tel Aviv accuses Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream of “Terrorism” for Boycotting illegal Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestine

( Middle East Monitor) – A landmark victory in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s (BDS) campaign against Israel came on Monday, with an announcement […]

Asa Winstanley

Inequality
Jeff Bezos Should Have Thanked American Taxpayers for Paying for His Space Ride

Jeff Bezos Should Have Thanked American Taxpayers for Paying for His Space Ride

By Scott Klinger | – ( Inequality.org ) – Shortly after emerging from his 10-minute space flight last week, Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon customers and […]

Inequality.org

Climate Crisis
Climate activists demand faster energy transition after flood disaster hits Germany

Climate activists demand faster energy transition after flood disaster hits Germany

By Charlotte Nijhuis | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Activists are protesting for better climate protection measures after catastrophic floods hit several parts of […]

Clean Energy Wire

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Only Electric Cars can save the Planet, with as much as 4/5s fewer Emissions than Gasoline Cars

Only Electric Cars can save the Planet, with as much as 4/5s fewer Emissions than Gasoline Cars

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A life-cycle study of automobile emissions in four major new-car markets globally by Georg Bieker of non-profit The International Council […]

Juan Cole

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