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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Israel/ Palestine
U Toronto Dumping of Legal Scholar critical of Israel has Chilling effect on Research, Academic Freedom

U Toronto Dumping of Legal Scholar critical of Israel has Chilling effect on Research, Academic Freedom

By Farida Deif | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – The University of Toronto’s law school allegedly rescinded a job offer for director of […]

Human Rights Watch

Health Care
Is it Time to end Profiteering on Public Health and Nationalize Big Pharma?

Is it Time to end Profiteering on Public Health and Nationalize Big Pharma?

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Over forty years of profiteering by Big Pharma and oligarch control of our economy has left the public […]

F. Douglas Stephenson

Climate Crisis
Top 5 Most Horrible things Trump said in his Abnormal Debate

Top 5 Most Horrible things Trump said in his Abnormal Debate

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The “debate” was an unfortunate and distasteful spectacle, largely because of Trump’s bullying and mendacious behavior. But let us resist […]

Juan Cole

Armenia
War for Oil, again? Why are Russia and Turkey intervening in the Azerbaijan-Armenia Clashes?

War for Oil, again? Why are Russia and Turkey intervening in the Azerbaijan-Armenia Clashes?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh threaten to destabilize the Caucasus. Turkey and Russia […]

Nikola Mikovic

Arab World
Democracy for the Arab World Now!   Khashoggi's Legacy is Launched

Democracy for the Arab World Now! Khashoggi’s Legacy is Launched

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by the Saudi government for working for democracy in the Middle East. […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Will a Woman's right to Choose end with Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court?

Will a Woman’s right to Choose end with Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court?

By Prudence Flowers | – Last week, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg’s “most fervent wish”, revealed by […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
The Mobster-in-Chief:  Will the November Election Be Decided in the Streets?

The Mobster-in-Chief: Will the November Election Be Decided in the Streets?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The white mobs didn’t care whom they killed as long as the victims were Black. They murdered people in public with […]

John Feffer

Corruption
Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?

Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The New York Times reported, in the scoop of the decade, that Trump has $420 million in loans and other […]

Juan Cole

Feminism
Ginsburg Would Want Women to Fight, Not Despair

Ginsburg Would Want Women to Fight, Not Despair

By Sophia Paslaski | – (Otherwords.org ) – The late justice dedicated her career to women and other marginalized Americans, and we owe her the […]

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