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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals
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As Trump urges End to Gaza Fighting, Half a Million Face Starvation and Israel bombs more Hospitals

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Even as President Trump and members of his entourage in Doha, Qatar, discussed how to end the Israeli war on […]

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO  $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

US Court fines Israeli Spyware Firm NSO $167mn for Targeting Whatsapp

05/15/2025 By Juan Cole

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

05/15/2025 By The Conversation

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Why the First Democratic Primary should be in Illinois

Why the First Democratic Primary should be in Illinois

Ann Arbor (informed Comment) – The custom of Iowa having the first Democratic primary (or as they are pleased to arrange it, caucus) goes back […]

Juan Cole

Inequality
Filthy Rich: How America's Unprecedented Inequality is Literally Killing Us

Filthy Rich: How America’s Unprecedented Inequality is Literally Killing Us

“The 500 richest people in the world…gained a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019, further exacerbating inequities that have not been seen since the […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Congress
The Senate’s Make-Believe Trial of Donald Trump

The Senate’s Make-Believe Trial of Donald Trump

(Otherwords.org) – In my 40 years as a lawyer, I’ve never seen a trial flout the basic requirements for fairness so brazenly. By Mitchell Zimmerman […]

OtherWords

Climate Crisis
We Can’t Stop what We Can’t Visualize: How We can Get our Minds around the Climate Crisis

We Can’t Stop what We Can’t Visualize: How We can Get our Minds around the Climate Crisis

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The climate crisis suffers from an odd contradiction. The seriousness of the issue is not matched by […]

John Buell

Bernie Sanders
On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders is the Only one who Can Save America

On the Big Issues, Bernie Sanders is the Only one who Can Save America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Generations of orators have told the story that if you put a frog in a pan of steaming water it […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Trump's Middle East 'vision' is a disaster that will only make things worse

Trump’s Middle East ‘vision’ is a disaster that will only make things worse

By Tony Walker< | - US President Donald Trump’s “vision” for Israelis and Palestinians is not a realistic peace plan to end a decades-old conflict. […]

The Conversation

Uncategorized
How the Trump Administration is Moving us Closer to Nuclear Midnight

How the Trump Administration is Moving us Closer to Nuclear Midnight

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, saw something shocking on his computer. […]

Michael Slager

Children
The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump: Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More

The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump: Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More

By Rajan Menon | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – The plight of impoverished children anywhere should evoke sympathy, exemplifying as it does the suffering of the […]

Rajan Menon

Donald Trump
In Humiliating Rebuke, Arab League and Palestine Slap Down Kushner Plan, as Palestine severs all Relations with US and Israel

In Humiliating Rebuke, Arab League and Palestine Slap Down Kushner Plan, as Palestine severs all Relations with US and Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that Palestine president Mahmud Abbas announced Saturday that he has informed the Israeli government and the Trump […]

Juan Cole

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