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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60
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Medicare, Imperiled by Trump, Turns 60

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Fl. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Sixty years ago, July 30, 1965, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri, former […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

08/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

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We’re Killing off Thousands of Species, damaging our Health, Economies and Connections to Nature

By Justine Bell-James, The University of Queensland and James Watson, The University of Queensland (The Conversation) – Almost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement […]

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Shamash! “Carbon Smoke”

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Juan Cole

Bill of Rights
For Trumpism “Free Speech” means Neo-Nazi Speech

For Trumpism “Free Speech” means Neo-Nazi Speech

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is eviscerating the US Constitution in a particularly insidious way. Previously, I have […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Balkans
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With off-limits Bosnian Serb Islamophobes

Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With off-limits Bosnian Serb Islamophobes

By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester | – ( ProPublica ) – Before Peter Marocco was selected to dismantle America’s entire foreign aid sector […]

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The New Ugly American: Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump

( Tomdispatch.com ) – A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New […]

William J. Astore

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Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran with the Mother of all Bombs

Netanyahu’s Quest to Attack Iran with the Mother of all Bombs

The emboldened Netanyahu cabinet is in a war path, again. It is mobilizing to attack Iran and lobbying President Trump into a plan that presumably […]

Dan Steinbock

Israel/ Palestine
Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses

Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses

Human Rights Watch – (Washington, DC) – The United States will be complicit in the Israeli government’s grave violations in Gaza so long as it […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s Water Infrastructure, deliberately destroyed by Israel, Desperately needs to be Rebuilt

Gaza’s Water Infrastructure, deliberately destroyed by Israel, Desperately needs to be Rebuilt

Thousands of Palestinians have died because of Israeli efforts to choke off Gaza’s water supply. Immediate aid — and long-term infrastructure repairs — are essential […]

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Moonbases and Solar Arrays: Will China win the Space Race as Musk’s DOGE cripples NASA?

Moonbases and Solar Arrays: Will China win the Space Race as Musk’s DOGE cripples NASA?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The irrational, ignorant and often plain stupid cuts that rogue DOGE operatives of Elon Musk are making to the US […]

Juan Cole

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