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Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health
Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – With a Cabinet full of fascists, fools, drunks, and sycophants, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands out as a […]

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

09/08/2025 By Juan Cole

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

09/08/2025 By Middle East Monitor

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Capitol Insurrection in Jerusalem? Netanyahu Calls New Government a "Fraud," calls for Massive Squatter Protests

Capitol Insurrection in Jerusalem? Netanyahu Calls New Government a “Fraud,” calls for Massive Squatter Protests

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bilal Daher reports at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 that outgoing prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the Likud Party bloc […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Why was there such Resistance to the (correct) theory of Aerosol Transmission of Covid-19?

Why was there such Resistance to the (correct) theory of Aerosol Transmission of Covid-19?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Droplets or aerosols? This was the issue that gripped pandemic politics for months. The scope of the […]

John Buell

Displaced and Refugees
"Lethal Disregard:" UN report on Deaths of Migrants in Mediterranean goes too Light on Libyan, Italian Navies

“Lethal Disregard:” UN report on Deaths of Migrants in Mediterranean goes too Light on Libyan, Italian Navies

Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) – The diplomatic language used in official human rights reports often fails to express the horrors that they […]

John Hickman

China
Our National Security Elite has China on the Brain: Does that really make us Safer?

Our National Security Elite has China on the Brain: Does that really make us Safer?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me start with my friend and the boat. Admittedly, they might not seem to have anything to do with each […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Israel, 'Only Mideast Democracy,' Criminalizes Journalism, arrests Al Jazeera Reporter for Covering E. Jerusalem; What is being Covered Up?

Israel, ‘Only Mideast Democracy,’ Criminalizes Journalism, arrests Al Jazeera Reporter for Covering E. Jerusalem; What is being Covered Up?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli police took another step toward criminalizing journalism on Saturday when they arrested al-Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara al-Budeiri while […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The human and material cost of Israel's Heavy Bombardment of Civilian Cities in  Gaza

The human and material cost of Israel’s Heavy Bombardment of Civilian Cities in Gaza

By Ahmad Hwedi and Hani Aldrsani | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel’s brutal military offensive against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Why the Current Historic Drought in the Southwest May be the New Normal

Why the Current Historic Drought in the Southwest May be the New Normal

By Alyssa Marksz | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – Arizona and other Western states just lived through the driest year in more than […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

History
If You Love Our Country, Don’t Ban Its History

If You Love Our Country, Don’t Ban Its History

( Otherwords.org) – Across the country, several states have passed or introduced bills that ban teaching “critical race theory.” Oklahoma’s governor just signed one. Arizona’s […]

Jill Richardson

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Israelis Actively Plotted "indefinite" Occupation of Gaza, West Bank, back in 1960s-- the 6 Day War was just a Pretext: Haaretz

Israelis Actively Plotted “indefinite” Occupation of Gaza, West Bank, back in 1960s– the 6 Day War was just a Pretext: Haaretz

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I can’t tell you how many times I have heard Israeli officials talk as though the 1967 Israeli military occupation […]

Juan Cole

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