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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead
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Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

How Musk / DOGE falsely accused an Afghan Refugee and Ruined his and his Family’s Lives

08/23/2025 By ProPublica

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

Israel’s Plan for massive new West Bank Settlement would make a Palestinian State Impossible

08/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Archaeology
Were Humanity’s Oldest Monumental Religious Sites Erected in NW Saudi Arabia?  1,000 ‘Rectangles’ Older than Stonehenge

Were Humanity’s Oldest Monumental Religious Sites Erected in NW Saudi Arabia? 1,000 ‘Rectangles’ Older than Stonehenge

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hugh Thomas and a team of Australian researchers have just published a groundbreaking article in the journal Antiquity describing their […]

Juan Cole

Investment
Don’t Let Wall Street Get Rich Speculating on our Water

Don’t Let Wall Street Get Rich Speculating on our Water

( Otherwords.org ) – Shameless speculators are trying to privatize and commoditize the water all humans need to live. By Jim Hightower | April 28, […]

Jim Hightower

Batteries
Delivery Trucks are beginning to go electric: And swappable Batteries Help

Delivery Trucks are beginning to go electric: And swappable Batteries Help

By Gail Broadbent and Graciela Metternicht | – Australia’s trucking industry is making moves to go electric. The latest development — a system for using […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli security forces arrest Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi in Ramallah: Must disclose his Location, Charges

Israeli security forces arrest Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi in Ramallah: Must disclose his Location, Charges

( Committee to Protect Journalists) – Israeli authorities should immediately make public any charges against Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi and disclose where he is being […]

Committee to Protect Journalists

Batteries
It Can be Done: California Briefly reaches 94.5% Renewable Electricity

It Can be Done: California Briefly reaches 94.5% Renewable Electricity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sammy Roth at the LA Times/ Boiling Point Newsletter reports that California’s main power grid was powered for several hours […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How the US is shielding Israel from Apartheid charges and itself from complicity charges

How the US is shielding Israel from Apartheid charges and itself from complicity charges

( Middle East Monitor) – The Palestinians mentioned apartheid in connection with Israel long before B’Tselem used the description. Now it is the turn of […]

Ramona Wadi

Far Right
Violent Extremism: QAnon and the offline dangers of online speech

Violent Extremism: QAnon and the offline dangers of online speech

By Chandell Gosse and Jaigris Hodson | – The new docuseries, Q: Into the Storm, is an investigation into the QAnon conspiracy theory and the […]

The Conversation

Militarization
No, getting out of Afghanistan doesn’t end America’s Forever Wars:  A Lifetime “at War”

No, getting out of Afghanistan doesn’t end America’s Forever Wars: A Lifetime “at War”

( Tomdispatch.com ) Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Why Jerusalem is Sacred to Muslims, and why even the Emirates are Rebuking Israel for Persecuting Palestinians There

Why Jerusalem is Sacred to Muslims, and why even the Emirates are Rebuking Israel for Persecuting Palestinians There

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began Monday, April 12, and for the succeeding week and a half there […]

Juan Cole

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