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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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Health Care
Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Distinguished economist Michael Hudson writes that by “conquering the brains of a country by shaping how people think, […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

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Separation of Religion and State declared by Revolutionary Sudan's once-Muslim fundamentalist Officers in Peace Deal with southern Guerrillas

Separation of Religion and State declared by Revolutionary Sudan’s once-Muslim fundamentalist Officers in Peace Deal with southern Guerrillas

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Sudan Tribune reports that Sudan cemented the separation of religion and state on Sunday. Military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan […]

Juan Cole

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When Leaders Kill: Biden's characterization of Putin applies to Neoliberal Ideologies, Too

When Leaders Kill: Biden’s characterization of Putin applies to Neoliberal Ideologies, Too

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The presidents who control more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear arsenal had a bit of […]

John Buell

Egypt
Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt's grand novelist, physician and global activist

Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist

By Adele Newson-Horst | – Egyptian novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89. […]

The Conversation

Afghanistan
Our Longest War is Ending without Victory, but will we Even Notice?

Our Longest War is Ending without Victory, but will we Even Notice?

“Ours is the cause of freedom. We’ve defeated freedom’s enemies before, and we will defeat them again… [W]e know our cause is just and our […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Donald Trump
University of Michigan Women Deans Decry Regent Weiser's urging that 'witch' Gov. Whitmer be 'burned at stake'

University of Michigan Women Deans Decry Regent Weiser’s urging that ‘witch’ Gov. Whitmer be ‘burned at stake’

Ron Weiser, a real estate billionaire, is the head of the Michigan Republican Party. In videotaped remarks last Thursday, he referred to Michigan governor Gretchen […]

Juan Cole

China
Biggest East Asian move into Mideast since the Mongol Empire: In Open Challenge to US, China inks 25-year, $400 bn Deal with Iran

Biggest East Asian move into Mideast since the Mongol Empire: In Open Challenge to US, China inks 25-year, $400 bn Deal with Iran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Saturday, IRNA reports, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement. The signatures were affixed in Tehran by Iranian […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
The Worst Attack on Voting Rights Since Jim Crow

The Worst Attack on Voting Rights Since Jim Crow

By Phyllis Richardson | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Last November, despite a global pandemic, voter intimidation, and an unprecedented disinformation campaign, a record number […]

OtherWords

Authoritarianism
Did Egypt's Military Dictatorship lead to the Suez Canal Ship-Blocking Crisis?

Did Egypt’s Military Dictatorship lead to the Suez Canal Ship-Blocking Crisis?

By Ibrahim Al-Tahir | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The world is closely following the details of the Suez Canal obstruction, a canal through […]

Middle East Monitor

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