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A Middle East without Nukes
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A Middle East without Nukes

Fariba Amini

“You can’t bomb away the knowledge”  -John Kerry Marg bar means death to… It was chanted after the hostage crisis.  Marg bar America.  Death to […]

After Mamdani Victory, Progressives Call for Primary Challenges to Democratic Establishment

After Mamdani Victory, Progressives Call for Primary Challenges to Democratic Establishment

06/26/2025 By Common Dreams

Iranian-Americans Opposed US Attack on Iran, Visa Ban: NIAC Poll

Iranian-Americans Opposed US Attack on Iran, Visa Ban: NIAC Poll

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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 […]

The Conversation

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 […]

contributors

Climate Crisis
Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?

Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?

By Steve Turton | – What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is it having, both in the […]

The Conversation

Education
Covid-19, our Public Schools and the Real-Time Lessons of Civic Democracy

Covid-19, our Public Schools and the Real-Time Lessons of Civic Democracy

By Belle Chesler | ( Tomdispatch.com) – It seems appropriate that the 2020-2021 school year in Portland, Oregon, began amid toxic smoke from the catastrophic […]

Belle Chesler

Authoritarianism
Flynn calls for Myanmar-Style Military Junta in U.S. - If he were Black, Brown or Muslim he'd be in Guantánamo

Flynn calls for Myanmar-Style Military Junta in U.S. – If he were Black, Brown or Muslim he’d be in Guantánamo

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donie O’Sullivan at CNN reports that disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn called for a military coup, like the […]

Juan Cole

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