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Psychopathocracy 3.0
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Psychopathocracy 3.0

Juan Cole

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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Americans are Dying to Die:  Guard shot for asking Customers to wear Mask as Trump's CDC predicts 3k death / day by June

Americans are Dying to Die: Guard shot for asking Customers to wear Mask as Trump’s CDC predicts 3k death / day by June

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Security guard Calvin Munerlyn, father of six with three step-children, was shot to death Monday in an altercation over Munerlyn’s […]

Juan Cole

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How Imprisoned Palestinians gain Rights from everyday Resistance

How Imprisoned Palestinians gain Rights from everyday Resistance

By Julie Norman | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Amid the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Palestinians are among some of the most vulnerable […]

Waging Nonviolence

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In Pandemic, Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America's Long Lost Wars

In Pandemic, Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America’s Long Lost Wars

As President Trump has complained, the U.S. does not win wars anymore. In fact, since 1945, the only 4 wars it has won were over […]

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

Climate Crisis
Oil’s Götterdämmerung: Why Covid-19 could Hasten the end of Fossil Fuels

Oil’s Götterdämmerung: Why Covid-19 could Hasten the end of Fossil Fuels

( Sustainability Times) – Last week the oil market took another plunge that saw the price of one barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fall […]

Sustainability Times

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Neo-Nazi "Reopeners" would Kill nearly as many Americans as died in All US Wars

Neo-Nazi “Reopeners” would Kill nearly as many Americans as died in All US Wars

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Roughly 1,264,000 US soldiers have died in all the wars this country has ever fought. A new simulation by the […]

Juan Cole

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Unionize!  Trump has coerced Workers at Covid-19 Hot Spot Meat Packing Plants into Front Lines

Unionize! Trump has coerced Workers at Covid-19 Hot Spot Meat Packing Plants into Front Lines

Southwest Harbor, Me. (Special to Informed Comment) – Should we be surprised that Smithfield[s pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota was a hotspot […]

John Buell

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Russia: Could the Coronavirus Crisis Loosen Vladimir Putin's Grip on Power?

Russia: Could the Coronavirus Crisis Loosen Vladimir Putin’s Grip on Power?

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – The COVID-19 pandemic has already opened the gates for a huge global economic crisis. Russia will not be spared, […]

Nikola Mikovic

Epidemics
Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers: Hasn’t the Military-Industrial Complex Taken Enough of Our Money?

Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers: Hasn’t the Military-Industrial Complex Taken Enough of Our Money?

By Mandy Smithberger | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – At this moment of unprecedented crisis, you might think that those not overcome by the economic […]

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Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov't, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

Israel Teeters on Brink, as Protests erupt against Indicted Netanyahu forming Gov’t, and Supreme Court prepares to Rule on his Eligibility

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thousands of Israelis gathered again at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest the formation of a new national unity […]

Juan Cole

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