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The Silence of the Scholars:  How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
Academic Freedom

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Shamai Leibowitz

Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the […]

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

“But still the Vine her ancient Ruby Yields:” Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:5

08/22/2025 By Juan Cole

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

‘All Eyes On Gaza City’ as Israel Ramps Up Campaign of Conquest and Ethnic Cleansing

08/22/2025 By Common Dreams

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How Trump gathered us all into Dante’s Lowest Level of Hell, his Natural Home

How Trump gathered us all into Dante’s Lowest Level of Hell, his Natural Home

( Tomdispatch.com ) – For some time now, I’ve wanted to send Donald Trump to Hell. I mean this literally, not as a figure of […]

Ariel Dorfman

Donald Trump
Trumpie Wingnut DNI Ratcliffe hilariously blames Iran for pro-Trump Email Spoofs

Trumpie Wingnut DNI Ratcliffe hilariously blames Iran for pro-Trump Email Spoofs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I don’t know what it is about being in official Washington that degrades basic critical faculties. Like the Red Queen […]

Juan Cole

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The root problem of Today's Economic Crisis in Palestine is not Covid-19, but Israel’s colonialism

The root problem of Today’s Economic Crisis in Palestine is not Covid-19, but Israel’s colonialism

( Middle East Monitor ) – The UN’s non-binding and generalised Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have provided a diversion in current EU and Palestinian politics. […]

Ramona Wadi

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Can America survive the re-election of Donald Trump?

Can America survive the re-election of Donald Trump?

By Henry Giroux | – The 2020 presidential election may be one of the most significant and far-reaching events of the 21st century. The stakes […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Pandemic Pivot:  The Pandemic is a Wake-up Call for Truly Global Action

Pandemic Pivot: The Pandemic is a Wake-up Call for Truly Global Action

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big […]

John Feffer

Donald Trump
Is it an accident that Iran and the US, two Theocracies, are Coronavirus Basket Cases?

Is it an accident that Iran and the US, two Theocracies, are Coronavirus Basket Cases?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The coronavirus statistics in both Iran and the United States are horrible. The US has the worst record on dealing […]

Juan Cole

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Has Russian media turned on its golden boy Trump, joining with China and Iran?

Has Russian media turned on its golden boy Trump, joining with China and Iran?

By Robert Hinck, Robert Utterback and Skye Cooley | – It can be easy to overlook how the rest of the world is making sense […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Trump's Health Insurance Plan benefits the 1% and Harms all the Rest of Us

Trump’s Health Insurance Plan benefits the 1% and Harms all the Rest of Us

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) –Considered a serious danger to the wealth of private corporations and individuals, the highly class-conscious corporate-run, profiteering U.S. business […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Democracy
Their Germs and Guns, our Steel:  Canvassers Risk it All for America

Their Germs and Guns, our Steel: Canvassers Risk it All for America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Look, folks, the air quality is in the red zone today. The EPA says that means people with lung or heart […]

Rebecca Gordon

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