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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis
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More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American […]

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW)

08/28/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

Israel’s killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967

08/28/2025 By The Conversation

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White too Long? Why is Racism so much stronger among White Christians than among Unchurched Whites?

White too Long? Why is Racism so much stronger among White Christians than among Unchurched Whites?

Racism is much stronger among America’s white Christians than among churchless whites – and it always has been. That’s the message of a new book […]

James A. Haught

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Leon Fleisher – the Pianist Who Reinvented Himself and Inspired the World

Leon Fleisher – the Pianist Who Reinvented Himself and Inspired the World

It was a sad day for the music world when we heard that concert pianist, conductor, and teacher par excellence Leon Fleisher died on August […]

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How did Americans become such Wimps?  Silence as Trump kills tens of Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud

How did Americans become such Wimps? Silence as Trump kills tens of Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicole Winfield and Lisa Marie Pane at the Associated Press write at the unbelief with which Europeans are staring at […]

Juan Cole

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Top Six Lessons of Beirut and Hiroshima

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Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Did the massive explosion in Beirut, about three quarters of a century after the decimation of Hiroshima […]

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Not just the Lungs: How COVID-19 might increase risk of Brain Inflammation and loss of Clear Thinking

Not just the Lungs: How COVID-19 might increase risk of Brain Inflammation and loss of Clear Thinking

By Natalie C. Tronson | – Of all frightening ways that the SARS-COV-2 virus affects the body, one of the more insidious is the effect […]

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OK, Boomers: Will the America we die in be unprecedentedly Hot, Racist, Unequal, Sickly and Authoritarian?

OK, Boomers: Will the America we die in be unprecedentedly Hot, Racist, Unequal, Sickly and Authoritarian?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me be blunt. This wasn’t the world I imagined for my denouement. Not faintly. Of course, I can’t claim I […]

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Corruption
Beirut: 'Day of Judgment' Protesters Occupy Gov't Buildings, Banking Assn., Forcing New Elections

Beirut: ‘Day of Judgment’ Protesters Occupy Gov’t Buildings, Banking Assn., Forcing New Elections

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced snap elections after a huge crowd of thousands gathered in downtown Beirut Saturday, confronting […]

Juan Cole

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What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means: We may actually have 30 million Cases

What the huge COVID-19 testing undercount in the US means: We may actually have 30 million Cases

Melissa Hawkins | – Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other institutions recently published a study which estimated that the true […]

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Corruption
Lebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage

Lebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage

By Walid el Houri | – ( OpenDemocracy) – On 4 August 2020, at 6pm the explosion at the Beirut port sent a destructive shockwave […]

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