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When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here
Climate Crisis

When even Saudi Arabia Jumps into Solar and Wind Power, You know Change is Here

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing

08/25/2025 By Global Voices

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

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Israel/ Palestine
How Israel’s violence is enacted through discriminatory land-use policies

How Israel’s violence is enacted through discriminatory land-use policies

By Irit Katz and Haim Yacobi | – On May 21, a ceasefire was agreed to between Israel, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, putting an end […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
A Year Later:  Are Palestinians like George Floyd?

A Year Later: Are Palestinians like George Floyd?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – May 26 was the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by Minnesota police, and President Biden had the […]

Juan Cole

Elections
Iran:  The Election Trump did succeed in Spoiling

Iran: The Election Trump did succeed in Spoiling

Oxford, U.K (Special to Informed Comment) – Although Iran is one of the few countries in the Middle East that has regular presidential, parliamentary and […]

Farhang Jahanpour

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A primer on the long-standing dispute over Gaza (Video: U-Michigan Interviews Juan Cole)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A primer on the long-standing dispute over Gaza (Video: U-Michigan Interviews Juan Cole)

“Since May 10, more than 200 Palestinians and a dozen Israelis have died in fighting in Israel and the occupied territories. Juan Cole, the Richard […]

Juan Cole

Human Rights
The Emperor's New Rules:  America's "Rules-Based Order" has Blind Spots

The Emperor’s New Rules: America’s “Rules-Based Order” has Blind Spots

( Code Pink) – The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Arms Sales
America Dominant Again (in Arms Sales) . . .  And Again… and Again… and Again

America Dominant Again (in Arms Sales) . . . And Again… and Again… and Again

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When it comes to trade in the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the United States of America. In […]

William D. Hartung

BDS
In Victory for American Freedom, Judge Mark Cohen Calls "Unconstitutional" Georgia's Ban on Boycotting Israel for Brutalizing Palestinians

In Victory for American Freedom, Judge Mark Cohen Calls “Unconstitutional” Georgia’s Ban on Boycotting Israel for Brutalizing Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ross Williams at the Georgia Reporter writes that federal judge Mark Cohen on Monday characterized as unconstitutional a Georgia state […]

Juan Cole

Apartheid
Stop comparing Israel to Apartheid South Africa; it is worse

Stop comparing Israel to Apartheid South Africa; it is worse

( Middle East Monitor ) – It is common these days to compare the institutional racism in Israel, and its occupation of Palestine, to Apartheid […]

Thembisa Fakude

International Criminal Court
Gaza Hostilities Underscore Role of Int'l Criminal Court

Gaza Hostilities Underscore Role of Int’l Criminal Court

By Balkees Jarrah | – Associate Director, International Justice Program | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – Israeli forces have launched relentless airstrikes in […]

Human Rights Watch

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