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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

11/14/2025 By Greg Grandin

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Afghanistan
“A Horrible Mistake”:  Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

“A Horrible Mistake”: Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

( Tomdispatch.com) – The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. The Washington Post […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Asian-Americans
Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican "Replacement Theory"

Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican “Replacement Theory”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Primack and Russell Contreras at Axios survey the ways in which the anti-Semitic, white supremacist “replacement theory” is being […]

Juan Cole

Arab Americans
For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib - and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

For the First time, Israeli Apartheid was Broached in Congress by Rashida Tlaib – and then the Racist Epithets rained Down

( Middle East Monitor) – [It is rare] for Israeli apartheid to be raised as a topic of discussion in the US Congress. In fact, […]

Asa Winstanley

Afghanistan
For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

For Afghan Women, the Frightening Return of ‘Vice and Virtue’

By Heather Barr | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – There is no better symbol for the disappearance of women’s rights in Afghanistan […]

Foreign Policy in Focus

Climate Crisis
Avoiding water bankruptcy in the Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other

Avoiding water bankruptcy in the Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other

By Mojtaba Sadegh, Ali Mirchi, Amir AghaKouchak and Kaveh Madani | – The 2021 water year ends on Sept. 30, and it was another hot, […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Generals on Afghanistan: Yes, Trump is Largely Responsible for Chaos

Generals on Afghanistan: Yes, Trump is Largely Responsible for Chaos

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Senate Hearing on the collapse of Afghanistan, at which the top US generals testified, underlined that actions taken by […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
End of Democracy in Tunisia: Unprecedented Confiscation of Power by the Presidency

End of Democracy in Tunisia: Unprecedented Confiscation of Power by the Presidency

( Joint Statement of Human Rights Watch et al.) – The promulgation on September 22, of Presidential Decree No. 117 implicitly abrogating the constitutional order […]

Human Rights Watch

Natural Gas
How Sen. Joe Manchin’s support for natural gas could derail Biden’s US climate plan

How Sen. Joe Manchin’s support for natural gas could derail Biden’s US climate plan

By Michael Oppenheimer | – ( The Conversation) – President Joe Biden has a goal for all U.S. electricity to come from zero-carbon sources by […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What a way to end a war! Apologies all around! We’re so damn sorry — or actually, maybe not! I’m thinking, […]

Tom Engelhardt

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