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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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A big Effing Deal:  On Eve of Climate Summit, news that Biden will cut US C02 Emissions 50% by 2030

A big Effing Deal: On Eve of Climate Summit, news that Biden will cut US C02 Emissions 50% by 2030

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – ( Matthew Daly at the Associated Press reports that President Biden will announce at Thursday’s virtual international Climate Summit that […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Green Future?  Earth Minerals and Renewables

Afghanistan’s Green Future? Earth Minerals and Renewables

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Can Afghanistan’s mineral wealth finance a transition to a carbon-neutral future? By John Feffer | April 21, 2021 […]

John Feffer

Climate Crisis
On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

On Top of Causing Deadly Global Heating, Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 Adult deaths each year

( Sustainability Times) – Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and […]

Sustainability Times

Afghanistan
Afghanistan pullout: Nato betrays its own values if interpreters and other local staff are left at risk

Afghanistan pullout: Nato betrays its own values if interpreters and other local staff are left at risk

By Sara de Jong | – The announcement of the US and Nato military withdrawal from Afghanistan later this year has elicited many responses, not […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Systemic Racism won't End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root

Systemic Racism won’t End with One Trial, But Biden-Harris can enlist Government in addressing Economic Inequality at its Root

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – African-Americans face aggressive policing in part because, on average, they lack resources. Household wealth allows a family to donate to […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
George Floyd's legacy: Could Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts spell the end of police immunity?

George Floyd’s legacy: Could Derek Chauvin guilty verdicts spell the end of police immunity?

By Kent Roach | – The police killing of George Floyd begs for effective remedies that respond both to past harms while also preventing future […]

The Conversation

Iran
Israeli Intelligence Chiefs Assess that Biden, Iran will Rejoin Nuclear Deal; Netanyahu wants to Stop it

Israeli Intelligence Chiefs Assess that Biden, Iran will Rejoin Nuclear Deal; Netanyahu wants to Stop it

By Motasem A Dalloul | – After two weeks of deliberations in Vienna about reactivating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Washington is Spoiling for a new Cold War with China, but this Ambition needs a Reality Check

Washington is Spoiling for a new Cold War with China, but this Ambition needs a Reality Check

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Like his immediate predecessor, Joe Biden is committed to a distinctly anti-China global strategy and has sworn that China will not […]

Dilip Hiro

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Why the Founding Fathers would have approved of Biden banning phrase "Illegal Alien"

Why the Founding Fathers would have approved of Biden banning phrase “Illegal Alien”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has announced that it will no longer use the phrase “illegal alien” and will replace it with […]

Juan Cole

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