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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember
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Iran: A Visionary Life to Remember

Fariba Amini

then he got involved in the student movement. It was the height of the Vietnam war.

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Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

Protesting Cancellation of Conference on “Palestine and Europe” at the Collège de France

11/13/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza

Israelis Block Syringes, Refrigerators for UNICEF Vaccination of Toddlers in Gaza

11/12/2025 By Juan Cole

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The more it Changes . . . What can we Expect from the new Unity Coalition Government in Israel?

The more it Changes . . . What can we Expect from the new Unity Coalition Government in Israel?

By John Strawson | – Israeli politics are entering a new chapter. After inconclusive elections in March, a politically diverse coalition has formed to end […]

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Lest we Forget: Trump’s and Billionaires’ Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War

Lest we Forget: Trump’s and Billionaires’ Covid Profiteering, Debasing Science and Death on the scale of the Civil War

By Nina Burleigh | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Now that we’re all unmasking and the economy seems set to roar into the 2020s, what will […]

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Top Ways Israel's Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America

Top Ways Israel’s Netanyahu Torpedoed Mideast Peace and Harmed Israel and America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A step was taken by his rivals toward unseating long-serving Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when opposition parties […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

( Richard Drake) – The sickening events lately occurring in the Middle East have shocked and outraged the conscience of the world. The experts who […]

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Democracy
Democracy: On the Precipice?

Democracy: On the Precipice?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like […]

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Climate Crisis
One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis – here's how else warming affects our health

One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate crisis – here’s how else warming affects our health

By Chloe Brimicombe and Hannah Cloke | – Since 1991, 37% of lives lost due to extreme heat globally can be attributed to climate change […]

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Culture
Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?

Was Mark Ruffalo wrong to accuse Israel of Genocide?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The great actor and great humanitarian Mark Ruffalo apologized on Twitter last week for asserting that Israel was committing “genocide” […]

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Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert

Israel: Violence, hate speech, discrimination against Palestinian minority must stop – UN expert

( UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner) | GENEVA | – A UN human rights expert condemned attacks on Israel’s Palestinian minority by […]

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Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?

Climate explained: why is the frozen Arctic heating up faster than other parts of the world?

By Steve Turton | – What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is it having, both in the […]

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