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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Frida Berrigan

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Authoritarianism
Tunisia: the complex issues behind the presidential power-grab

Tunisia: the complex issues behind the presidential power-grab

By Mariam Salehi | – Ten years on from the Arab uprisings, Tunisia has often been presented as a rare success story. Elsewhere Egypt sank […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Biden's Moonshot:  America's Cars are going Electric, "Fast!" with Union Labor

Biden’s Moonshot: America’s Cars are going Electric, “Fast!” with Union Labor

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Joe Biden is good at multi-tasking. His announcement on Thursday that he wants 50% of all cars sold in the […]

Juan Cole

Japan
On Anniversary of U.S. Nuking of Hiroshima, can we Learn from the Forests?

On Anniversary of U.S. Nuking of Hiroshima, can we Learn from the Forests?

(Special to Informed Comment) – On August 6 and 9 throughout the world, people will commemorate the hundreds of thousands of Japanese people who died—crushed, […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Militarization
The Other Big Lie: For 30 Years, we’ve sent our Troops into Unwinnable Wars

The Other Big Lie: For 30 Years, we’ve sent our Troops into Unwinnable Wars

( Tomdispatch.com) – “The thirty-year interregnum of U.S. global hegemony,” writes David Bromwich in the journal Raritan, “has been exposed as a fraud, a decoy, […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Anti-Vaccination
Demented DeSantis denounces "Hysteria" over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

Demented DeSantis denounces “Hysteria” over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Just like the noble from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who read so many chivalric romances that he […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Congress
In Bid to Recapture Congress' Power to Declare War, Key Senate Committee advances Repeal of Iraq War Authorizations

In Bid to Recapture Congress’ Power to Declare War, Key Senate Committee advances Repeal of Iraq War Authorizations

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trish Turner at ABC News reports that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to repeal the two Authorizations for […]

Juan Cole

Anti-Vaccination
Republican Governors have gone too Far in Banning Local Mask, Vaccine Mandates

Republican Governors have gone too Far in Banning Local Mask, Vaccine Mandates

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – With the Delta variant of Covid 19 now producing escalating case counts and hospitalizations, talk among pundits […]

John Buell

Bashar al-Assad
Does Renewed fighting in Syria's Deraa, Birthplace of the Revolution, Show Russia's Weakness?

Does Renewed fighting in Syria’s Deraa, Birthplace of the Revolution, Show Russia’s Weakness?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Russia is making an effort to prevent wide-scale hostilities in Syria’s southern province of Deraa. The Kremlin reportedly aims […]

Nikola Mikovic

China
What electric vehicle manufacturers can learn from China – their biggest market

What electric vehicle manufacturers can learn from China – their biggest market

By Youlin Huang, David Tyfield, Didier Soopramanien, and Lixian Qian | – Despite the pandemic, global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased by 43% in […]

The Conversation

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