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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

08/06/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Protest to MIT about Denying a Palestine Course to Professor Michael DeGraff

Protest to MIT about Denying a Palestine Course to Professor Michael DeGraff

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Sally Kornbluth President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sally.kornbluth@mit.edu . . .   Dear President […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Make Art, not War

Make Art, not War

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war […]

William D. Hartung

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As Trump Shutters US Offshore Wind, Asia’s Renewables Promise Cheaper Manufacturing, Trade Surpluses

As Trump Shutters US Offshore Wind, Asia’s Renewables Promise Cheaper Manufacturing, Trade Surpluses

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has halted the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management from granting new offshore wind licenses. This move will gut the […]

Juan Cole

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In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law

In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy | – ( ProPublica ) – It was the week President Donald Trump had signed a sweeping executive […]

ProPublica

Academic Freedom
Emory University’s Shocking Suspension of Umaymah Mohammad for Exercising her Right to Free Speech on Palestine

Emory University’s Shocking Suspension of Umaymah Mohammad for Exercising her Right to Free Speech on Palestine

Gregory L. Fenves  President, Emory University  president@emory.edu Dear President Fenves:    We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Demonic Duo Trump and Musk Detonate a Blast Wave at US Foreign Aid, Harming Millions

Demonic Duo Trump and Musk Detonate a Blast Wave at US Foreign Aid, Harming Millions

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – Too lazy to bother with the laborious process of democracy, President Trump bestowed power onto the maniacal zealot […]

Dan Dinello

Donald Trump
Palestinians have long resisted Resettlement – Trump’s Plan to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza won’t Change that

Palestinians have long resisted Resettlement – Trump’s Plan to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza won’t Change that

By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona (The Conversation) – President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. should “take over” Gaza, displace its current population and […]

The Conversation

National Security State
A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises:  The Secret War within the Pentagon

A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises: The Secret War within the Pentagon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers […]

Michael T. Klare

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Why not Welcome Israelis to US and Europe instead of Exiling Unwilling Palestinians to Saudi Arabia?

Why not Welcome Israelis to US and Europe instead of Exiling Unwilling Palestinians to Saudi Arabia?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Egyptian Foreign Ministry forcefully denounced on Saturday the remarks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling for the establishment […]

Juan Cole

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