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A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran:  When Journalists are the Target
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A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran: When Journalists are the Target

Fariba Amini

“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” – ― Stefan […]

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

09/03/2025 By Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Researching the Roots of War to Fight Militarism

Researching the Roots of War to Fight Militarism

09/03/2025 By William D. Hartung

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UN Special Rapporteur:  US Drone Strike killing Iranian Gen. Soleimani was Unlawful

UN Special Rapporteur: US Drone Strike killing Iranian Gen. Soleimani was Unlawful

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Agnes Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, has concluded in a new report that […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump has Quit on Us: The President is conducting a sit-down strike in his bedroom while the country burns

Trump has Quit on Us: The President is conducting a sit-down strike in his bedroom while the country burns

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Over the past month, it has become painfully clear even to millions of people who voted for him in […]

David Faris

Israel/ Palestine
Annexation was Always the Israeli Goal in the Palestinian West Bank

Annexation was Always the Israeli Goal in the Palestinian West Bank

( Middle East Monitor ) – Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the […]

Ramzy Baroud

Bahrain
Gulf Arab Women were Finally making Progress, but will the Covid-19 Crash and Austerity set them Back?

Gulf Arab Women were Finally making Progress, but will the Covid-19 Crash and Austerity set them Back?

By Humaira Hansrod | – Citizens of Saudi Arabia are having to get used to something that has long been an unpleasant fact of life […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Coal and Covid:  Trump Facilitates both in a backward US as Europe makes strides against Both

Coal and Covid: Trump Facilitates both in a backward US as Europe makes strides against Both

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US management of the Covid-19 crisis has been horrible compared to Europe, as the famous chart makes clear. I […]

Juan Cole

African-Americans
Maskless in the Red Death: The Pathology of Trump's Racism is turning our Pandemic into Negligent Genocide

Maskless in the Red Death: The Pathology of Trump’s Racism is turning our Pandemic into Negligent Genocide

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – As Donald Trump sits idly by, the nation is experiencing both a catastrophic public health collapse that has brought […]

Dan Dinello

Pentagon
Amid the Covid-19 Recession, you can't Afford the Bloated Pentagon Budget but Corporations Can

Amid the Covid-19 Recession, you can’t Afford the Bloated Pentagon Budget but Corporations Can

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Imagine that as a member of Congress you are a strong advocate of urban public transit facilities. […]

John Buell

Islam
Islam's anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today

Islam’s anti-racist message from the 7th century still resonates today

By Asma Afsaruddin | – One day, in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad dropped a bombshell on his followers: He told them that all people are […]

The Conversation

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Was February '20 Peak Oil Demand?  Petroleum might never Recover From Covid-19 and EVs

Was February ’20 Peak Oil Demand? Petroleum might never Recover From Covid-19 and EVs

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julien Mieville at AFP asks the big question: Has global demand for petroleum peaked? The meme of “peak oil” once […]

Juan Cole

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