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25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now:  Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths”
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25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now: Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths”

Juan Cole

The foreign ministers of 25 nations, including much of Europe along with Japan, Canada and Australia, have issued a Joint Statement demanding that the Israeli […]

Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War

Protesting Georgetown U’s Sanctioning of Prof. Jonathan Brown for Speaking out on Iran War

07/22/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

How Electric Vehicles and Water Heaters are turning Cities into giant Batteries

How Electric Vehicles and Water Heaters are turning Cities into giant Batteries

07/22/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Crisis
Beirut's Destruction was a Crime of Evil Negligence, the same Crime being Committed Against our Climate

Beirut’s Destruction was a Crime of Evil Negligence, the same Crime being Committed Against our Climate

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 300,000 people in Beirut have been left homeless by the enormous explosion at the city’s port on Tuesday, which […]

Juan Cole

Environmentalism
Beirut Catastrophe: Polluters routinely mishandle, illegally trade Hazardous Materials at Sea, in Ports

Beirut Catastrophe: Polluters routinely mishandle, illegally trade Hazardous Materials at Sea, in Ports

By Scott Edwards and Christian Bueger | At the time of writing at least 100 people have lost their lives and a further 4,000 have […]

The Conversation

Japan
Atomic Poet Survivors, Military Realists and Millennials: August 6 and 9

Atomic Poet Survivors, Military Realists and Millennials: August 6 and 9

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Poet survivors of the merciless, savage US atomic bombing of Japan guide us to the deepest, most intimate […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Epidemics
Trump is making us Sick, and Unsafe: Covid Infection Rate Triples in US Military

Trump is making us Sick, and Unsafe: Covid Infection Rate Triples in US Military

By Andrea Mazzarino | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – American military personnel are getting sick in significant numbers in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Trump nearly provokes International Incident, Wrongly saying Beirut Explosion a "Bomb"

Trump nearly provokes International Incident, Wrongly saying Beirut Explosion a “Bomb”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A massive ammonium nitrate explosion rocked Beirut’s port on Tuesday, sending up a mushroom cloud that reminded some of Hiroshima […]

Juan Cole

Far Right
Israel: Will Netanyahu's Authoritarian Crackdown on Mass Demonstrations bring him Down?

Israel: Will Netanyahu’s Authoritarian Crackdown on Mass Demonstrations bring him Down?

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Massive demonstrations across Israel are calling for the unseating of Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Middle East Monitor

Japan
An Atomic Bomb no bigger than a Pencil

An Atomic Bomb no bigger than a Pencil

By Anne-Ruth Wertheim[1] – It was 24 August 1945. I was ten years old, living with my mother, brother and sister in a Japanese internment […]

Anne-Ruth Wertheim

China
Trump's Cold War China Policy is Isolating the U.S., Not China

Trump’s Cold War China Policy is Isolating the U.S., Not China

( Codepink) – Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Donald Trump
A Warning Signal for US?  Corruption, Gov't Gridlock, Pandemic, drive half a Million Lebanese Children into Hunger

A Warning Signal for US? Corruption, Gov’t Gridlock, Pandemic, drive half a Million Lebanese Children into Hunger

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanon, a small country of 4.7 million citizens and another 1.5 million Syrian refugees and 400,000 Palestinian refugees, is facing […]

Juan Cole

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