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Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel’s Wars
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Colonial Logic, not Jewish Wisdom Guides Israel’s Wars

Yakov M. Rabkin

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – With missiles flying across West Asia, I am reminded of my trip to Iran in 2016, when I […]

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility: A Target Too Deep For Israeli Weapons Alone

06/21/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

Trump’s contravention of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal Led to Israel-Iran Escalation

06/21/2025 By The Conversation

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The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu's Sudetenland Moment

The End of the Oslo Accords: Palestinians pull out of Agreements in face of Netanyahu’s Sudetenland Moment

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced after a cabinet meeting that his government will move to implement the end of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Netanyahu brands the Int'l Criminal Court investigation of Israeli War Crimes a "Strategic Threat"

Netanyahu brands the Int’l Criminal Court investigation of Israeli War Crimes a “Strategic Threat”

( Middle East Monitor) – Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) determined that Palestine is a state for the purpose of its investigations into war […]

Ramona Wadi

Epidemics
Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

Downside of Globalization: Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients’ lives in the balance

By Madlen Davies , Rosa Furneaux, and Ben Stockton | – ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) – As more coronavirus patients were admitted to […]

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Climate Crisis
Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

Global warming now pushing heat into territory humans cannot tolerate

By Tom Matthews and Colin Raymond | – The explosive growth and success of human society over the past 10,000 years has been underpinned by […]

The Conversation

Books
Fundamentalist Pandemics:  What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Fundamentalist Pandemics: What Evangelicals and Khomeinists Could Learn From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

This essay by Juan Cole was originally published in Tomdispatch.com. See the original for a perceptive introductory essay by Tom Engelhardt. This spring, the novel […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

Why Israel Elites Fear the Nakba: How memory became Palestine’s greatest weapon

( Middle East Monitor ) – On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration […]

Ramzy Baroud

Displaced and Refugees
Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

Locked up with no escape: refugees and migrants in Libya face bombs,virus and everything in between

By Marwa Mohamed | – (openDemocracy.net) – Libya today is facing its greatest challenge to date. In spite of years of internal conflict, the country […]

Open Democracy

Cults
The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

The Church of QAnon: Will Trumpian conspiracy theories form the basis of a dangerous new religious movement?

By Marc-André Argentino | – Followers of the QAnon movement believe in wild and dangerous conspiracy theories about U.S. President Donald Trump. Now a faction […]

The Conversation

Arms Sales
Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Did Trump fire State Dept. Inspector to Protect Shady Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mystery deepens. Late last Friday, Trump summarily fired the State Department Inspector General, Steve Linick. While in US law […]

Juan Cole

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