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Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .
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Gaza: The Horror, The Horror . . .

Hugh J. Curran

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – There are mornings when we are unable to bear to listen to the news taking place in […]

Stopping Israel’s Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action

Stopping Israel’s Attack on Civil Society, Justice and Human Rights: A Call to Action

05/19/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Detained!  Trump’s America as one Big Black Site

Detained! Trump’s America as one Big Black Site

05/19/2025 By Andrea Mazzarino

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Voter suppression
Voter Suppression Is an Attack on Democracy — And My Faith

Voter Suppression Is an Attack on Democracy — And My Faith

By Robert P. Alvarez | – ( Otherwords.org ) – I believe in God and in the right to vote. Georgia’s recent election bill doesn’t […]

OtherWords

Acidification of Oceans
More CO2 in our Atmosphere now than any time since 3.6 mn Years Ago, when Oceans were 90 feet higher (that's our fate)

More CO2 in our Atmosphere now than any time since 3.6 mn Years Ago, when Oceans were 90 feet higher (that’s our fate)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a scientific shocker, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found that despite the slowdown in carbon dioxide emissions […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egyptian Foreign policy under Sisi:   diminishing independence in the service of dictatorship

Egyptian Foreign policy under Sisi: diminishing independence in the service of dictatorship

Johannesburg (Special to Informed Comment) – Egyptian foreign policy under the tutelage of Egyptian president Abdul Fattah El-Sisi has seen the country lose much of […]

Ebrahim Deen

Christianity
Trump Held Steady among Religious Believers at the Ballot - the Nonreligious Defeated Him

Trump Held Steady among Religious Believers at the Ballot – the Nonreligious Defeated Him

By Ryan Burge | – For all the predictions and talk of a slump in support among evangelicals, it appears Donald Trump’s election loss was […]

The Conversation

Pentagon
The Pentagon prefers a Conventional War it Can Win, but is likely stuck with Guerrilla Wars it Can’t

The Pentagon prefers a Conventional War it Can Win, but is likely stuck with Guerrilla Wars it Can’t

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The future isn’t what it used to be. As a teenager in the 1970s, I watched a lot of TV science […]

William J. Astore

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Iraq Announces end of US Combat Mission in Iraq, further reduction in 2,500 Troops now There

Iraq Announces end of US Combat Mission in Iraq, further reduction in 2,500 Troops now There

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Iraqi News Agency reports that Qasim al-Araji, Iraq’s National Security Adviser, said on Wednesday that his country had reached […]

Juan Cole

Books
Mrs. Hemingway, Israel, and the Palestinians

Mrs. Hemingway, Israel, and the Palestinians

Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – In the current PBS series on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work, Martha Gellhorn, the journalist and novelist who […]

Shalom Goldman

International Criminal Court
Lifting Trump's sanctions on the Int'l Criminal Court doesn't go Far Enough: The US must uphold International Law

Lifting Trump’s sanctions on the Int’l Criminal Court doesn’t go Far Enough: The US must uphold International Law

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – When the loony right gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference back in February, the theme of the Trump-heavy […]

John Feffer

Islam
Islamic Judaism?  (Video)

Islamic Judaism? (Video)

John Tolan | Emir-Stein Center “In the 19th century, some Jewish scholars in Central Europe looked to early Islam and in particular to the Prophet […]

Emir-Stein Center

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