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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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How Pro-Israel Sentiment took Hold in Japan’s Conservative Government

How Pro-Israel Sentiment took Hold in Japan’s Conservative Government

Tokyo (Special to Informed Comment) – The recent flareup of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revealed the degree to which pro-Israel sentiment has crept into the […]

Michael Penn

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A Ceasefire is not Enough: The Struggle for our Rights in Palestine must Continue until the Occupation Ends

A Ceasefire is not Enough: The Struggle for our Rights in Palestine must Continue until the Occupation Ends

By Eman Abusidu | – ( Middle East Monitor) – I am a Palestinian. I know about pain. I have felt it, seen it and […]

Middle East Monitor

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Palestinians are not a "Death Toll": How Corporate Media's "Objective Reporting" on Israel-Palestine Favors Governments

Palestinians are not a “Death Toll”: How Corporate Media’s “Objective Reporting” on Israel-Palestine Favors Governments

By Annabelle Lukin | – As lethal violence kills ordinary people in Gaza and Israel, news outlets across the globe are constructing versions of events […]

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The Great Palestinian General Strike from the Jordan River to the Sea even Reaches President Biden in Dearborn

The Great Palestinian General Strike from the Jordan River to the Sea even Reaches President Biden in Dearborn

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden came to the Ford Rouge River Plant to tout new electric vehicles, one of his signature climate-friendly programs, […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu thought Ethnically Cleansing Sheikh Jarrah would Unite Israeli Right; Instead it United Palestinians

Netanyahu thought Ethnically Cleansing Sheikh Jarrah would Unite Israeli Right; Instead it United Palestinians

(Middle East Monitor) – From the outset, some clarification regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. […]

Ramzy Baroud

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza conflict: no matter how powerful Israel’s military becomes it still can’t win

Gaza conflict: no matter how powerful Israel’s military becomes it still can’t win

By Paul Rogers | – Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt […]

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Joe Biden
President Biden can’t Build America Back better until he Takes on the Permanent War Establishment

President Biden can’t Build America Back better until he Takes on the Permanent War Establishment

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Is President Biden afflicted with the political equivalent of a split personality? His first several months in office suggest just that […]

Juan Cole

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Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism?

Do Americans turn a Blind eye to Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians because of White Nationalism?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Why governments in London, Paris and Washington back Israel’s Occupation of 5 million stateless Palestinians and its slow ethnic cleansing […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why the United States has Blood on its Hands in Palestine

Why the United States has Blood on its Hands in Palestine

( Code Pink) -The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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