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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children
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Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

Beyond Diplomacy: Qatar’s strategic posture redraws the regional Map of Resistance

09/15/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

Back to 1984? Trump Sees World Power through Petroleum-colored Glasses

09/15/2025 By Michael T. Klare

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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

Feminism
Blocked from Civil Dissent, Women in Saudi Arabia are turning to business as 'quiet' Feminist activism

Blocked from Civil Dissent, Women in Saudi Arabia are turning to business as ‘quiet’ Feminist activism

By Sophie Alkhaled | – Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released from prison on February 10 2021 after 1,001 days in custody. […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
US Resuming Arms Sales to United Arab Emirates is Disastrous, Given its Wars on Yemen, Libya

US Resuming Arms Sales to United Arab Emirates is Disastrous, Given its Wars on Yemen, Libya

By Afrah Nasser | – Yemen Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division | – ( Human Rights Watch) – United States President Joe Biden […]

Human Rights Watch

China
Despite Hawks Seeking new Cold War, the US and China can only Confront Climate Emergency by Cooperating

Despite Hawks Seeking new Cold War, the US and China can only Confront Climate Emergency by Cooperating

( China Dialogue ) – They say don’t mess with Texas, but Mother Nature didn’t get the memo. A surprise winter storm killed at least […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
US spent $2.261 Trillion on Afghanistan War, in which ~240,000 Have Died; We could have Greened Half the Grid Instead

US spent $2.261 Trillion on Afghanistan War, in which ~240,000 Have Died; We could have Greened Half the Grid Instead

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Costs of War Project at Brown University has just brought out a new report on Afghanistan. The September 11, […]

Juan Cole

Employment
For Workers struggling to Unionize at Amazon, it is a Matter of Life and Death

For Workers struggling to Unionize at Amazon, it is a Matter of Life and Death

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – That unions lost the battle to organize Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama plant should and did come as no […]

John Buell

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