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The Assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The US v. Canada
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The Assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The US v. Canada

Hugh J. Curran

“These first few months  [have resulted] in the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific and medical research, clampdown on any efforts promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), newly aggressive policies for […]

How Israel’s Domestic Crises and Netanyahu’s Power Projection are Reshaping the Middle East

How Israel’s Domestic Crises and Netanyahu’s Power Projection are Reshaping the Middle East

06/27/2025 By The Conversation

Republicans and Climate Breakdown: They Know Better

Republicans and Climate Breakdown: They Know Better

06/27/2025 By William deBuys

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Bye Bye Bibi Blues: Netanyahu was Israel's Trump

Bye Bye Bibi Blues: Netanyahu was Israel’s Trump

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump have both steered their countries, parties and political ships […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Israel
The more it Changes . . . What can we Expect from the new Unity Coalition Government in Israel?

The more it Changes . . . What can we Expect from the new Unity Coalition Government in Israel?

By John Strawson | – Israeli politics are entering a new chapter. After inconclusive elections in March, a politically diverse coalition has formed to end […]

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Epidemics
Lest we Forget: Trump’s and Billionaires’ Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War

Lest we Forget: Trump’s and Billionaires’ Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War

By Nina Burleigh | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we’re all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will […]

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Barack Obama
Top Ways Israel's Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America

Top Ways Israel’s Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A step was taken by his rivals toward unseating long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when opposition parties […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

( Richard Drake) – The sickening events lately occurring in the Middle East have shocked and outraged the conscience of the world. The experts who […]

Richard Drake

Democracy
Democracy: On the Precipice?

Democracy: On the Precipice?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis – here's how else warming affects our health

One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis – here’s how else warming affects our health

By Chloe Brimicombe and Hannah Cloke | – Since 1991, 37% of lives lost due to extreme heat globally can be attributed to climate change […]

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Culture
Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?

Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The great actor and great humanitarian Mark Ruffalo apologized on Twitter last week for asserting that Israel was committing “genocide” […]

Juan Cole

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Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert

Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert

( UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner) | GENEVA | – A UN human rights expert condemned attacks on Israel’s Palestinian minority by […]

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