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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?
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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human-caused global heating is hitting the Middle East hard, and rates of cancer in Middle Eastern women are increasing. Is […]

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

06/12/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

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In the Age of Trump, the the Nuclear Threat is only Growing

In the Age of Trump, the the Nuclear Threat is only Growing

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Perhaps because last Saturday was devoted to the future makeup and judicial course of the US Supreme […]

John Buell

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Fixing Our Eyes on American Poverty: How Christian Nationalism Punishes the Poor

Fixing Our Eyes on American Poverty: How Christian Nationalism Punishes the Poor

( Tomdispatch.com) – On August 26th, during the Republican National Convention, Vice President Mike Pence closed out his acceptance speech with a biblical sleight of […]

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Six Years later, remembering how Socialist Kurds and the US Air Force defeated the ISIS Siege of Kobani

Six Years later, remembering how Socialist Kurds and the US Air Force defeated the ISIS Siege of Kobani

By Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Troy Souza | – Dartmouth, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Six years ago, in October, 2014, the brutal […]

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Why Trump/DeSantis Herd Immunity ('Let's Kill Grandma') Strategy won't Work: Only about 9% of Americans have Covid-19 Antibodies

Why Trump/DeSantis Herd Immunity (‘Let’s Kill Grandma’) Strategy won’t Work: Only about 9% of Americans have Covid-19 Antibodies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Taking his cue from Trump, Florida governor and grandma-killer Ron DeSantis announced on Friday the complete reopening of Florida, unleashing […]

Juan Cole

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With Barrett on the Court, if Trump is Reelected and goes Full Mussolini, Can he be Stopped?

With Barrett on the Court, if Trump is Reelected and goes Full Mussolini, Can he be Stopped?

Williamsport, PA (Special to Informed Comment) – “A republic, if you can keep it,” Ben Franklin famously described the new Constitution in 1787. Well, can […]

Michael G. Roskin

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What is Amy Coney Barrett's charismatic Catholicism?

What is Amy Coney Barrett’s charismatic Catholicism?

By Mathew Schmalz | – Amy Coney Barrett reportedly will be Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Questions […]

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Has Trump done Irreparable Damage to US Partnerships Abroad?

Has Trump done Irreparable Damage to US Partnerships Abroad?

Donald Trump used to care what the world outside America thought of him. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Before he ran for president, he […]

John Feffer

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Montesquieu in Najd:  Saudi Arabia, World's Last Absolute Monarchy, Challenged by New Democratic Political Party

Montesquieu in Najd: Saudi Arabia, World’s Last Absolute Monarchy, Challenged by New Democratic Political Party

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A group of expatriate Saudi intellectuals announced this week the formation of the National Assembly Party, which they intend as […]

Juan Cole

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Renewables cover almost half of German electricity use in first 9 months 2020

Renewables cover almost half of German electricity use in first 9 months 2020

(Clean Energy Wire ) – Renewables covered about 48 percent of German power consumption in the first three quarters of 2020, preliminary data from energy […]

Julian Wettengel

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