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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump:  Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?
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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Trump: Is the World on the Brink of a Major Disaster?

Farhang Jahanpour

Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The reports of the past few days are extremely worrying. The acrimonious and open split between President Donald […]

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

06/07/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism

06/07/2025 By The Conversation

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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 […]

The Conversation

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

Democratic Party
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

Authoritarianism
The Golem always turns on its Creator:  The Fable that Explains everything about Trump

The Golem always turns on its Creator: The Fable that Explains everything about Trump

Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment) – Four years ago, before the 2016 election, I wrote in these pages about my search for the appropriate […]

Shalom Goldman

Bashar al-Assad
Will Biden Wind down the Syria War or keep it Bubbling?

Will Biden Wind down the Syria War or keep it Bubbling?

Incoming US administration won’t take leaps in Syria

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