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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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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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