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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty
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Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and […]

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

Four Ways the West can back up Palestine Recognition with Practical Pressure on Israel

08/20/2025 By The Conversation

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

From Gaza to Trump, Some of us Saw this Coming

08/20/2025 By Rebecca Gordon

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Authoritarianism
Trump's Coup and Burma's Coup:  What they have in Common

Trump’s Coup and Burma’s Coup: What they have in Common

The Asian country’s military overthrew its government over baseless claims of voter fraud. Sound familiar? ( 48hills.org) – This week, military officers in Myanmar (formerly […]

Reese Erlich

National Security State
America's Global Empire is now Costing us our own Well-Being

America’s Global Empire is now Costing us our own Well-Being

( Code Pink) – In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

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Republicans in Congress engage in hateful Islamophobia to defend their Islamophobe, Greene

Republicans in Congress engage in hateful Islamophobia to defend their Islamophobe, Greene

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In attempting to defend Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Far Right (a.k.a. the Republican Party) has actually just taken her […]

Juan Cole

China
Biden’s Top Foreign Policy Challenge: Avoiding a Cold War with China

Biden’s Top Foreign Policy Challenge: Avoiding a Cold War with China

Taiwan and the South China Sea are the likeliest points of conflict — but conflict is not an option. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – […]

Conn M. Hallinan

Climate Crisis
Greta Thunberg effect: people familiar with young climate activist may be more likely to act

Greta Thunberg effect: people familiar with young climate activist may be more likely to act

By Anandita Sabherwal and Sander van der Linden | – She was declared Time magazine’s person of the year in the same month that Donald […]

The Conversation

Iran
Washington and Tehran: Who will make the first move?

Washington and Tehran: Who will make the first move?

( Middle East Monitor) – From the outside, the heated debate between Tehran and Washington seems as though it could be summarised by the question: […]

Oraib AlRantawi

Congress
After Years of Outrage Politics, RepubliQans have surrendered to the Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theorists

After Years of Outrage Politics, RepubliQans have surrendered to the Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theorists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – From Sarah Palin’s alarmist and mendacious charge of death panels in the Affordable Health Act to Benghazi, where the smarmy […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
As a Muslim American, I'm heartened Biden Repealed Muslim Ban: But Rampant Islamophobia is Undiminished

As a Muslim American, I’m heartened Biden Repealed Muslim Ban: But Rampant Islamophobia is Undiminished

By Domenica Ghanem | ( Otherwords.org ) – President Joe Biden has repealed the Muslim ban. As the news rolled in, I remembered how I […]

OtherWords

Fossil Fuels
China's National Carbon Market has Just Launched: How it Could be a Climate Game Changer

China’s National Carbon Market has Just Launched: How it Could be a Climate Game Changer

By Huw Slater, Wang Shu and Dimitri De Boer | – ( China Dialogue) – With the new market having opened on 1 February, experts […]

China Dialogue

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