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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad
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A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – Osamah F. Khalil, A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden. Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard […]

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

California Democrats push to block ICE from Schools, Hospitals and Shelters

06/08/2025 By Cal Matters

Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

Trump’s Middle East Pivot aims to counter China’s rising Influence

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Millions of Yemeni Children on Brink of Starvation amid Saudi War, Covid-19 Aid Cutbacks: UNICEF

Millions of Yemeni Children on Brink of Starvation amid Saudi War, Covid-19 Aid Cutbacks: UNICEF

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The war on Yemen begun in 2015 by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has been a failure militarily […]

Juan Cole

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Despite Trump, Testing Is Not Causing Case Counts to Rise. The Virus Is Just Spreading Faster

Despite Trump, Testing Is Not Causing Case Counts to Rise. The Virus Is Just Spreading Faster

By Charles Ornstein and Ash Ngu | – ( ProPublica) – President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have repeatedly attributed the increase in […]

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Defund the Pentagon, Too

Defund the Pentagon, Too

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – When Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a resolution recently to cut $350 billion from the Defense budget, the only media […]

Sonali Kolhatkar

Climate Crisis
100 degrees in Siberia? Top 5 ways burning Coal, Gasoline is causing Astonishing Transformation of Arctic

100 degrees in Siberia? Top 5 ways burning Coal, Gasoline is causing Astonishing Transformation of Arctic

This Arctic heat wave has been unusually long-lived. The darkest reds on this map of the Arctic are areas that were more than 14 degrees […]

The Conversation

Christianity
Tear them down? “White Jesus” statues have an Unsavory History in Aryan Racial Theory that also Influenced Nazi Theology

Tear them down? “White Jesus” statues have an Unsavory History in Aryan Racial Theory that also Influenced Nazi Theology

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Emily McFarlan at the Religion News Service explores the controversy over depictions of Jesus as white in American statues. She […]

Juan Cole

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Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll:  The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll: The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Today the United States eclipsed 125,000 deaths from the Coronavirus pandemic, and the worst might be yet to come. […]

David Faris

Israel/ Palestine
Colonial Violence: Ahmed Erekat was Killed at Israeli Checkpoint in Palestine on way to Sister's Wedding

Colonial Violence: Ahmed Erekat was Killed at Israeli Checkpoint in Palestine on way to Sister’s Wedding

( Middle East Monitor) – For Palestinians, Israel’s military checkpoints are made for its colonial violence and perpetual dehumanisation of the occupied population. In the […]

Ramona Wadi

art and photography
A Drunken Nightingale: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Honolulu's Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art

A Drunken Nightingale: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Honolulu’s Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design | Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art |- Here is a short video made while I […]

Juan Cole

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Trump's incompetence has Reduced Americans to Lepers whom Europe won't Let in

Trump’s incompetence has Reduced Americans to Lepers whom Europe won’t Let in

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The French press is reporting that the European Union is opening its borders on July 1, but will keep them […]

Juan Cole

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