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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line
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The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Braga, Portugal and and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the final days of Israel’s eleven-day war with Iran, the targeted […]

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

06/28/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country

06/28/2025 By The Conversation

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On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

( Sustainability Times) – Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and […]

Sustainability Times

Afghanistan
Afghanistan pullout: Nato betrays its own values if interpreters and other local staff are left at risk

Afghanistan pullout: Nato betrays its own values if interpreters and other local staff are left at risk

By Sara de Jong | – The announcement of the US and Nato military withdrawal from Afghanistan later this year has elicited many responses, not […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Systemic Racism won't End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root

Systemic Racism won’t End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – African-Americans face aggressive policing in part because, on average, they lack resources. Household wealth allows a family to donate to […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
George Floyd's legacy: Could Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts spell the end of police immunity?

George Floyd’s legacy: Could Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts spell the end of police immunity?

By Kent Roach | – The police killing of George Floyd begs for effective remedies that respond both to past harms while also preventing future […]

The Conversation

Iran
Israeli Intelligence Chiefs Assess that Biden, Iran will Rejoin Nuclear Deal; Netanyahu wants to Stop it

Israeli Intelligence Chiefs Assess that Biden, Iran will Rejoin Nuclear Deal; Netanyahu wants to Stop it

By Motasem A Dalloul | – After two weeks of deliberations in Vienna about reactivating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Washington is Spoiling for a new Cold War with China, but this Ambition needs a Reality Check

Washington is Spoiling for a new Cold War with China, but this Ambition needs a Reality Check

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Like his immediate predecessor, Joe Biden is committed to a distinctly anti-China global strategy and has sworn that China will not […]

Dilip Hiro

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Why the Founding Fathers would have approved of Biden banning phrase "Illegal Alien"

Why the Founding Fathers would have approved of Biden banning phrase “Illegal Alien”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has announced that it will no longer use the phrase “illegal alien” and will replace it with […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Blocked from Civil Dissent, Women in Saudi Arabia are turning to business as 'quiet' Feminist activism

Blocked from Civil Dissent, Women in Saudi Arabia are turning to business as ‘quiet’ Feminist activism

By Sophie Alkhaled | – Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released from prison on February 10 2021 after 1,001 days in custody. […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
US Resuming Arms Sales to United Arab Emirates is Disastrous, Given its Wars on Yemen, Libya

US Resuming Arms Sales to United Arab Emirates is Disastrous, Given its Wars on Yemen, Libya

By Afrah Nasser | – Yemen Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division | – ( Human Rights Watch) – United States President Joe Biden […]

Human Rights Watch

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