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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Solar just made Banks write off a $1 bn. Australian Coal Plant as Worthless; What's in Your Retirement Portfolio?

Solar just made Banks write off a $1 bn. Australian Coal Plant as Worthless; What’s in Your Retirement Portfolio?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Daniel Mercer at the Australian Broadcasting Company reports that the newest coal-fired power plant in the country, the 10-year-old, nearly […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Saudi: Terrorism Court Rushes Activist’s Unfair Trial; Charges Relate Solely to Peaceful Women’s Rights Activism

Saudi: Terrorism Court Rushes Activist’s Unfair Trial; Charges Relate Solely to Peaceful Women’s Rights Activism

( Human Rights Watch) – (Beirut) – Saudi authorities are rushing through the closed trial of the prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, Human Rights […]

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s isolation of Palestinian Child Detainees amounts to Torture:  Defence for Children In’tl

Israel’s isolation of Palestinian Child Detainees amounts to Torture: Defence for Children In’tl

( Middle East Monitor) – . . . A a new report by Defence for Children International – Palestine provides detailed new evidence in exhaustive […]

Asa Winstanley

Employment
Mitch McConnell Wants to Let Corporations Kill You

Mitch McConnell Wants to Let Corporations Kill You

( Otherwords.org ) – The Senate GOP leader’s refusal to pass COVID-19 aid without corporate immunity should be the scandal of the year. By Thom […]

Thom Hartmann

Batteries
Greening America:  Can Biden's new Team of Buttigieg and Granholm save us from the Climate Crisis?

Greening America: Can Biden’s new Team of Buttigieg and Granholm save us from the Climate Crisis?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Washington Post is reporting that Joe Biden will make Pete Buttigieg his secretary of transportation and Jennifer Granholm his […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli infrastructure projects aid the de facto annexation of Palestinian land

Israeli infrastructure projects aid the de facto annexation of Palestinian land

( Middle East Monitor ) – If we were to listen only to the international community’s rhetoric about the impending Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory, […]

Ramona Wadi

Environment
These are the plastic items that most kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds

These are the plastic items that most kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds

By Lauren Roman, Britta Denise Hardesty,Chris Wilcox, and Qamar Schuyler | – How do we save whales and other marine animals from plastic in the […]

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Donald Trump
Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

( Tomdispatch.com ) – As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate. On October 27th, […]

Rajan Menon

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Iran's Pres. Rouhani to Biden:  We will Fulfill our Nuclear Obligations on Day One if you Return to 2015 Deal

Iran’s Pres. Rouhani to Biden: We will Fulfill our Nuclear Obligations on Day One if you Return to 2015 Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian president Hassan Rouhani was asked Tuesday in an interview with a state-owned news outlet under what conditions Iran would […]

Juan Cole

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