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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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Despite Hawks Seeking new Cold War, the US and China can only Confront Climate Emergency by Cooperating

Despite Hawks Seeking new Cold War, the US and China can only Confront Climate Emergency by Cooperating

( China Dialogue ) – They say don’t mess with Texas, but Mother Nature didn’t get the memo. A surprise winter storm killed at least […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
US spent $2.261 Trillion on Afghanistan War, in which ~240,000 Have Died; We could have Greened Half the Grid Instead

US spent $2.261 Trillion on Afghanistan War, in which ~240,000 Have Died; We could have Greened Half the Grid Instead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Costs of War Project at Brown University has just brought out a new report on Afghanistan. The September 11, […]

Juan Cole

Employment
For Workers struggling to Unionize at Amazon, it is a Matter of Life and Death

For Workers struggling to Unionize at Amazon, it is a Matter of Life and Death

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – That unions lost the battle to organize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama plant should and did come as no […]

John Buell

Immigration
The Real Trauma at the Border:  Hundreds of Trump's Separated Children Still can't Find their Families

The Real Trauma at the Border: Hundreds of Trump’s Separated Children Still can’t Find their Families

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Media outlets consistently describe flight from Central America and Mexico as a “crisis,” suggesting that migrants’ proximity to our […]

Michael Slager

Human Rights
The Saudi Lobby is Coming for You, Small Town America

The Saudi Lobby is Coming for You, Small Town America

By Ben Freeman, Brian Steiner and Leila Riazi | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S., was […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Biden to reverse Trump's White Supremacist, Sadistic near-ban on Refugees, but US still Lags, Sweden, Germany other OECD Countries

Biden to reverse Trump’s White Supremacist, Sadistic near-ban on Refugees, but US still Lags, Sweden, Germany other OECD Countries

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – About one quarter of one percent (0.25 percent) of the US population consists of refugees — some 838,000. This minuscule […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The "Real" Apartheid: "There's no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person"

The “Real” Apartheid: “There’s no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person”

( Middle East Monitor) – “This is the real apartheid,” Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. “The fact that Jews can’t enter into […]

Asa Winstanley

Displaced and Refugees
People escaping Violence have a Right to Seek Asylum: Stop Calling it a "Border Crisis"

People escaping Violence have a Right to Seek Asylum: Stop Calling it a “Border Crisis”

By Rachel Pak | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Over the last several weeks, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported a rise in the […]

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Archaeology
The Catholic Reconquista in Spain outlawed Islam in 1502, but Secret Muslims kept their culture -- and Cuisine -- Going

The Catholic Reconquista in Spain outlawed Islam in 1502, but Secret Muslims kept their culture — and Cuisine — Going

By Aleks Pluskowski, Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, and Marcos García García | – Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia […]

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